Multistage cenozoic extension of the albion-raft river-grouse creek metamorphic core complex: Geochronologic and stratigraphic constraints

Geosphere

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1429-1466

  Konstantinou, Alexandros ^a   Strickland, Ariel ^b   Miller, Elizabeth L ^a   Wooden, Joseph P ^a,c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIN EVOLUTION; CENOZOIC; DETACHMENT FAULT; EXHUMATION; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FOOTWALL; GEOCHRONOLOGY; METAMORPHIC ROCK; NORMAL FAULT; PLUTONISM; SLIP; STRATIGRAPHY; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC PLATE; TRANSITION ZONE; UPLIFT; VOLCANISM;

ALBION MOUNTAINS; GROUSE CREEK MOUNTAINS; RAFT RIVER; UNITED STATES; UTAH;

TETRAONIDAE;

EID: 84873486475     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1553040X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/GES00778.1     Document Type: Article

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