Shrinking of the colorado plateau via lithospheric mantle erosion: Evidence from Nd and Sr isotopes and geochronology of neogene basalts

Geology

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 27-30

  Crow, Ryan ^a   Karlstrom, Karl ^a   Asmerom, Yemane ^a   Schmandt, Brandon ^b   Polyak, Victor ^a   DuFrane, S Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKALI BASALT; BASALTIC VOLCANISM; COLORADO PLATEAU; DATA SUPPORT; ISOTOPIC DATA; LITHOSPHERIC MANTLE; LOW-VELOCITY; MAGMATISMS; NEO GENES; PROTEROZOIC; RADIAL MIGRATION; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL PATTERN; TOMOGRAPHIC DATA; WESTERN UNITED STATES;

GEOCHRONOLOGY; IGNEOUS ROCKS; ISOTOPES; NEODYMIUM; STRONTIUM; VELOCITY;

BASALT;

ALKALI BASALT; ASTHENOSPHERE; BASALT; EROSION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MANTLE STRUCTURE; NEODYMIUM ISOTOPE; NEOGENE; PROTEROZOIC; STRONTIUM ISOTOPE; UPLIFT; VOLCANISM;

COLORADO PLATEAU; UNITED STATES;

EID: 78751630448     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G31611.1     Document Type: Article

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