Low-Temperature Cooling Histories of the Cheyenne Belt and Laramie Peak Shear Zone, Wyoming, and The Soda Creek-Fish Creek Shear Zone, Colorado

The Rocky Mountain Region: An Evolving Lithosphere: Tectonics, Geochemistry, and Geophysics

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 55-70

  Kelley, Sharri A ^a  

^a NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Core mantle boundary; Geology, Structural Rocky Mountains; Geophysics Rocky Mountains; Orogeny Rocky Mountains

Indexed keywords

COOLING; DEFORMATION; FISH; FISSION REACTIONS; GEOCHRONOLOGY; LANDFORMS; PHOSPHATE MINERALS; SEA LEVEL; TECTONICS; TEMPERATURE;

APATITE FISSION TRACKS; BASEMENT STRUCTURES; CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY; LOW TEMPERATURES; MESOZOIC SEDIMENTS; PARTIAL ANNEALING; ROCKY MOUNTAINS; SOUTHERN ROCKY MOUNTAINS;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

EID: 84870846589     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1029/154GM05     Document Type: Chapter

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