Extension and uplift of the northern Rio Grande Rift: Evidence from 40Ar/39Ar geochronology from the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, south-central Colorado and northern New Mexico

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 362, Issue , 2002, Pages 47-64

  Miggins, Daniel P ^a   Thompson, Ren A ^a   Pillmore, Charles L ^a   Snee, Lawrence W ^a   Stern, Charles R ^b  

^a DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOCHRONOLOGY; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; VOLCANOES;

CRUSTAL BLOCK; EXHUMATION RATES; FIELD OBSERVATIONS; GEOLOGIC MAPPING; LATE CENOZOIC; MIDDLE MIOCENE; RIO GRANDE RIFT; UPLIFT RATE;

VOLCANIC ROCKS;

CENOZOIC; GEOMORPHOLOGY; SEDIMENTARY ROCK; VOLCANIC ROCK;

RIO GRANDE RIFT; SAN LUIS VALLEY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84870869146     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2362-0.47     Document Type: Article

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