Orogenic pulses in the Alberta Rocky Mountains: Radiometric dating of major faults and comparison with the regional tectono-stratigraphic record

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 127, Issue 3-4, 2014, Pages 480-502

  Pană, Dinu Ion ^a   van der Pluijm, Ben A ^b  

^a ALBERTA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; LANDFORMS; LOADING; RADIOMETRY; STRATIGRAPHY; TECTONICS;

EASTWARD PROPAGATION; FAULT PROPAGATION; FOLD-AND-THRUST BELTS; RADIOMETRIC DATING; SOUTHERN ROCKY MOUNTAINS; STRATIGRAPHIC RECORDS; TECTONIC LOADING; TERRANE ACCRETION;

FAULTING;

CRETACEOUS; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; EOCENE; FAULT GOUGE; FAULT ZONE; FOLD AND THRUST BELT; GEOCHRONOLOGY; JURASSIC; OROGENY; RADIOMETRIC METHOD; TECTONOSTRATIGRAPHY; THRUST FAULT;

ALBERTA; CANADA; ROCKY MOUNTAINS;

EID: 84924943731     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 19432674     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B31069.1     Document Type: Article

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