Middle Cenozoic uplift and concomitant drying in the central Rocky Mountains and adjacent Great Plains

Geology

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 547-550

  Fan, Majie ^a   Heller, Paul ^b   Allen, Sarah D ^c   Hough, Brian G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^c TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOLOGY;

LATE CENOZOIC; LATE EOCENE; NEBRASKA; OLIGOCENE; PALEOALTIMETRY; ROCKY MOUNTAINS; VOLCANIC GLASS; WESTERN GREAT PLAINS;

SURFACE WATERS;

ALTIMETRY; CENOZOIC; OLIGOCENE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC SETTING; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; UPLIFT; VOLCANIC GLASS;

GREAT PLAINS; NEBRASKA; ROCKY MOUNTAINS; UNITED STATES; WYOMING;

EID: 84902137764     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G35444.1     Document Type: Article

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