Early Mesozoic paleogeography and tectonic evolution of the western United States: Insights from detrital zircon U-Pb geochronology, Blue Mountains Province, northeastern Oregon

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 123, Issue 9-10, 2011, Pages 1939-1965

  LaMaskin, Todd A ^a,d   Vervoort, Jeffrey D ^b   Dorsey, Rebecca J ^a   Wright, James E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARCHEAN; BACK-ARC BASIN; BLUE MOUNTAIN; DETRITAL ZIRCON; DETRITAL ZIRCON GRAINS; JURASSIC; JURASSIC SEDIMENTS; MESOZOIC; NEOPROTEROZOIC; OFFSHORE COMPLEX; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PALEOPROTEROZOIC; PALEOZOIC; PRECAMBRIAN; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TRIASSIC; TRIASSIC SEDIMENTS; U-PB GEOCHRONOLOGY; WESTERN UNITED STATES;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; BIOLOGY; GALLIUM; IGNEOUS ROCKS; LANDFORMS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; TECTONICS; ZIRCON;

GEOCHRONOLOGY;

DETRITAL DEPOSIT; GEOCHRONOLOGY; MESOZOIC; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PETROGRAPHY; PROVENANCE; SANDSTONE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC SETTING; TERRANE; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

BLUE MOUNTAINS [UNITED STATES]; OREGON; UNITED STATES;

EID: 80051599591     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 19432674     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B30260.1     Document Type: Article

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