Young convergent-margin orogens, climate, and crustal thickness-A Late Cretaceous-Paleogene Nevadaplano in the American Southwest?

Lithosphere

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 67-75

  Ernst, W G ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

BASIN AND RANGE; COLORADO PLATEAU; CONVERGENT MARGIN; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; EXTREMELY ARID REGIONS; LATE CRETACEOUS; RAINFALL PATTERNS; WESTERN UNITED STATES;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

ARID REGION; CONVERGENT MARGIN; CORDILLERA; CRETACEOUS; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; LITHOSPHERE; OROGENIC BELT; PALEOGENE; PLATE TECTONICS; PLATEAU; RAINFALL; STABLE ISOTOPE; UPLAND REGION; WESTERLY; ARIDITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; NEOGENE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY);

CALIFORNIA; CASCADE RANGE; COLORADO PLATEAU; SIERRA NEVADA [CALIFORNIA]; UNITED STATES; UTAH; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 78549262437     PISSN: 19418264     EISSN: 19474253     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/L84.1     Document Type: Article

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