Layer-parallel shortening across the Sevier fold-thrust belt and Laramide foreland of Wyoming: Spatial and temporal evolution of a complex geodynamic system

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 357-358, Issue , 2012, Pages 405-420

  Weil, Arlo Brandon ^a   Yonkee, W Adolph ^b  

^a BRYN MAWR COLLEGE   (United States)

^b WEBER STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Flat slab subduction; Laramide; Layer parallel shortening; Paleomagnetism; Paleostress trajectories; Sevier

Indexed keywords

FLAT-SLAB SUBDUCTION; LARAMIDE; LAYER-PARALLEL-SHORTENING; PALEO-STRESS; PALEOMAGNETISM; SEVIER;

BUILDINGS; GEOMAGNETISM; MOLECULAR PHYSICS; SILICATES; STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONICS;

ROTATION;

CLEAVAGE; CRATON; CRUSTAL SHORTENING; FOLD AND THRUST BELT; FORELAND BASIN; GEODYNAMICS; MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; PALEOMAGNETISM; PALEOSTRESS; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STRESS FIELD; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT;

UNITED STATES; WYOMING;

EID: 84868569908     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2012.09.021     Document Type: Article

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