Load-induced subsidence of the Ancestral Rocky Mountains recorded by preservation of Permian landscapes

Geosphere

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 654-668

  Soreghan, Gerilyn S ^a   Keller, G Randy ^a   Gilbert, M Charles ^a   Chase, Clement G ^b   Sweet, Dustin E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

^c TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUCKLING; CARBONIFEROUS; DEFORMATION; INTRAPLATE PROCESS; LANDSCAPE; LAURENTIA; NUMERICAL MODEL; OROGENY; PENNSYLVANIAN; PERMIAN; SUBSIDENCE; THRUST; UPLIFT;

ROCKY MOUNTAINS;

EID: 84862549208     PISSN: 1553-040     EISSN: 1553040X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/GES00681.1     Document Type: Article

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