Timing and character of deformation along the margin of a metamorphic core complex, west-central Arizona

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 303, Issue , 1996, Pages 147-170

  Lucchitta, Ivo ^a   Suneson, Neil H ^b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b Oklahoma Geological Survey   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASALT; DEFORMATION; FAULTING; STRATIGRAPHY; TIMING CIRCUITS;

COLORADO PLATEAU; DETACHMENT FAULTING; LITHOSPHERIC MANTLE; METAMORPHIC CORE COMPLEX; SILICIC VOLCANISM; STRUCTURAL INFORMATION; THERMALLY DRIVEN; VOLCANIC ACTIVITIES;

PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS);

BASALT; CRUST; CRUSTAL EVOLUTION; DEFORMATION; EMPLACEMENT; FAULTING; METAMORPHIC ROCK; MYLONITIZATION; UPWELLING; VOLCANIC ERUPTION; VOLCANISM;

ARIZONA; COLORADO PLATEAU; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84861008469     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2303-5.147     Document Type: Article

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