Retrospective on "Low-angle (denudation) faults, hinterland of the Sevier orogenic belt, eastern Nevada and western Utah" by Richard Lee Armstrong

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 338, Issue , 1999, Pages 357-362

  Wernicke, Brian ^a   Spencer, Jon ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Arizona Geological Survey   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENUDATION; FAULT; OROGENIC BELT;

NEVADA; UNITED STATES; UTAH;

EID: 84871087058     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2338-8.357     Document Type: Review

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