Magnitudes and spatial patterns of erosional exhumation in the Sevier hinterland, eastern Nevada and western Utah, USA: Insights from a Paleogene paleogeologic map

Geosphere

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 881-901

  Long, Sean P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXHUMATION; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; GEOLOGICAL MAPPING; NORMAL FAULT; OROGENIC BELT; PALEOGENE; PERMIAN; PLATEAU; PROTEROZOIC; SEDIMENT THICKNESS; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION; THRUST; UNCONFORMITY; UPLIFT; CAMBRIAN; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; FAULTING; MAGNITUDE; MISSISSIPPIAN; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; THRUST FAULT; TRIASSIC;

NEVADA; PEQUOP MOUNTAINS; RUBY MOUNTAINS; UNITED STATES; UTAH; ROBERTS MOUNTAINS;

EID: 84864919038     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1553040X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/GES00783.1     Document Type: Article

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