Tectonic evolution of the Midcontinent Rift System in Kansas

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 312, Issue , 1997, Pages 235-241

  Berendsen, Pieter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LITHOLOGY; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; VOLCANIC ROCKS;

BASEMENT ROCKS; PROTEROZOIC TERRANES; RIFT STRUCTURE; SEDIMENTARY COVERS; TECTONIC BOUNDARIES; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC HISTORY; UPLIFTED AREAS;

FAULTING;

BASEMENT ROCK; PALEOZOIC; PROTEROZOIC; SEDIMENT CORE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; UPLIFT;

KANSAS; MIDCONTINENT RIFT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84870785916     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2312-4.235     Document Type: Article

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