Timing and mechanisms of basement uplift and exhumation in the Colorado Plateau-Basin and Range transition zone, Virgin Mountain anticline, Nevada-Arizona

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 463, Issue , 2010, Pages 311-329

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; APATITE; FELDSPAR; FISSION REACTIONS; LAKES; LANDFORMS; STRATIGRAPHY; TIMING CIRCUITS;

APATITE FISSION TRACK AGES; APATITE FISSION TRACKS; BRITTLE FAULT ZONE; COMPLEX GEOMETRIES; CRUSTAL EXTENSION; DUCTILE SHEAR ZONE; FIRST-ORDER PROCESS; POTASSIUM FELDSPAR;

BUILDINGS;

BASEMENT ROCK; CRUSTAL EVOLUTION; CRUSTAL SHORTENING; EXHUMATION; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FAULT ZONE; MIOCENE; OROGENY; PROTEROZOIC; THERMOCHRONOLOGY; TRANSITION ZONE; UPLIFT;

COLORADO PLATEAU; LAKE MEAD; UNITED STATES;

EID: 78650963682     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2010.2463(14)     Document Type: Article

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