Crustal-scale shortening structures beneath the Blue Ridge Mountains, North Carolina, USA

Lithosphere

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 242-256

  Wagner, Lara S ^a   Stewart, Kevin ^a   Metcalf, Kathryn ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LANDFORMS; SEISMOLOGY;

APPALACHIAN OROGEN; BOUGUER GRAVITY ANOMALIES; BROAD-BAND SEISMIC STATIONS; COMMON-CONVERSION POINTS; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; NORTH CAROLINA , USA; RECEIVER FUNCTIONS; SOUTHERN APPALACHIANS;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DATA SET; FOSSIL RECORD; LAURENTIA; SEISMIC DATA; SLAB; TECTONIC STRUCTURE;

APPALACHIANS; BLUE RIDGE MOUNTAINS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84870943633     PISSN: 19418264     EISSN: 19474253     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/L184.1     Document Type: Article

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