Detrital zircons indicate no drainage link between southern California rivers and the Colorado Plateau from mid-Cretaceous through Pliocene

Geology

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 311-314

  Ingersoll, Raymond V ^a   Grove, Marty ^b   Jacobson, Carl E ^c   Kimbrough, David L ^d   Hoyt, Johanna F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARIZONA; COLORADO PLATEAU; COLORADO RIVER; DETRITAL ZIRCON; DEXTRAL SLIP; EARLY PLIOCENE; GRAND CANYONS; GULF OF CALIFORNIA; MESOZOIC; MID-CRETACEOUS; MOJAVE DESERT; OROGENIC BELTS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PALEOGENE; PLIOCENE; SALTON TROUGH; SAN ANDREAS FAULT; SANDSTONE SAMPLES; SONORAN DESERT; SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA; UPPER CRETACEOUS; UPPER PALEOZOIC;

SAND; STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; ZIRCON;

RIVERS;

CRETACEOUS; DETRITAL DEPOSIT; DRAINAGE BASIN; HEADWATER; LAURENTIA; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PLIOCENE; ZIRCON;

ARIZONA; CALIFORNIA; COLORADO PLATEAU; COLORADO RIVER [NORTH AMERICA]; GRAND CANYON; GULF OF CALIFORNIA; MOJAVE DESERT; PACIFIC OCEAN; SALTON TROUGH; SONORAN DESERT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84874746902     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G33807.1     Document Type: Article

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