Exhumation of the west-central Alborz Mountains, Iran, Caspian subsidence, and collision-related tectonics

Geology

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 559-562

  Axen, Gary J ^a   Lam, Patrick S ^a   Grove, Marty ^a   Stockli, Daniel F ^a   Hassanzadeh, Jamshid ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Caspian; Collision; Exhumation; Geochronology; Iran; Tectonics

Indexed keywords

FAULT SLIP;

FELDSPAR; GRANITE; SEDIMENTATION; SUBSIDENCE; ZIRCON;

TECTONICS;

CENOZOIC; COLLISION ZONE; CONTINENTAL COLLISION; EXHUMATION; IGNEOUS INTRUSION; SUBSIDENCE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

IRAN;

EID: 84879881259     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(2001)029<0559:EOTWCA>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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