Structure and tectonics of the northwestern United States from EarthScope USArray magnetotelluric data

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 402, Issue C, 2014, Pages 275-289

  Bedrosian, Paul A ^a   Feucht, Daniel W ^a,b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

EarthScope; Laurentian margin; Magnetotellurics; Siletz terrane; Tectonic evolution; USArray

Indexed keywords

MAGNETOTELLURICS; SEISMOLOGY; TECTONICS;

EARTHSCOPE; LAURENTIAN; SILETZ TERRANE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; USARRAY;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

EID: 84922754871     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2013.07.035     Document Type: Article

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