Rapid middle Miocene extension and unroofing of the southern Ruby Mountains, Nevada

Tectonics

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Colgan, Joseph P ^a   Howard, Keith A ^a   Fleck, Robert J ^a   Wooden, Joseph L ^b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APATITE; FISSION REACTIONS; GEOCHRONOLOGY; LANDFORMS; MICA; PHOSPHATE MINERALS; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SILICATE MINERALS; STRATIGRAPHY; TECTONICS; WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS);

APATITE FISSION TRACKS; BRITTLE DETACHMENT; CENOZOIC MAGMATISM; CRUSTAL SHORTENING; EARLY MIOCENE; FAULT SLIP; FISSION TRACK; JURASSIC; MESOZOIC; MIDDLE MIOCENE; MIOCENE; NEAR SURFACE TEMPERATURE; NORMAL FAULTS; NORTHERN BASINS; OLIGOCENE; PALEOZOIC; PALEOZOIC ROCKS; PLUTONS; RAPID COOLING;

RUBY;

APATITE; BASIN FILL; BRITTLE DEFORMATION; CRUSTAL SHORTENING; DETACHMENT FAULT; EXHUMATION; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FAULTING; FISSION TRACK DATING; MAGMATISM; MIOCENE; NORMAL FAULT;

NEVADA; RUBY MOUNTAINS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79251578334     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009TC002655     Document Type: Article

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