Full Title: New Perspectives on Rio Grande Rift Basins: From Tectonics to Groundwater

Editors: Mark R. Hudson and V.J.S. (Tien) Grauch

Extending from Colorado, USA, on the north to the state of Chihuahua, Mexico, on the south, the Rio Grande rift divides the Colorado Plateau on the west from the interior of the North American craton on the east. This volume focuses on the Rio Grande rift’s upper crustal basins and is organized geographically with study areas progressing from north to south. Eighteen chapters cover a variety of topics, including sedimentation history, rift basin geometries and the influence of older structure on rift basin evolution, faulting and strain transfer within and among basins, relations of magmatism to rift tectonism, and basin hydrogeology.

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Published: 5/07/2013

ISBN Number: 9780813724942

Pages: 500 plus CD-ROM

Product Category: Special Papers