Structure and 40 Ar/ 39 Ar K-feldspar thermal history of the Gold Butte block: Reevaluation of the tilted crustal section model

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 463, Issue , 2010, Pages 331-352

  Karlstrom, Karl E ^a   Heizler, Matt ^b   Quigley, Mark C ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUILDINGS; FELDSPAR; GEOMETRY; GOLD; MAPPING; MICA; PUBLISHING; RESTORATION;

COLORADO PLATEAU; CRYSTALLINE BASEMENT; DIFFUSION DOMAIN; EXTENSIONAL DEFORMATION; GEOTHERMAL GRADIENTS; STRUCTURAL CROSS-SECTION; STRUCTURAL MODELING; THERMOCHRONOLOGY;

FAULTING;

ALLOCHTHON; ARGON-ARGON DATING; BEDDING PLANE; BOUNDARY LAYER; DEFORMATION; DETACHMENT FAULT; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FAULT GEOMETRY; FAULTING; HANGING WALL; TECTONIC RECONSTRUCTION; THERMOCHRONOLOGY; TRANSITION ZONE;

COLORADO PLATEAU; UNITED STATES;

EID: 78650933964     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2010.2463(15)     Document Type: Article

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