Mesa Central of Mexicogravitational collapseexhumation rateintrusion exhumationthermochronologyThe Mesa Central of Mexico (MC) is an elevated plateau located 2000 m above sea level in central Mexico, where intrusions outcrop that register the history of exhumation-erosion occurring during the Late ...
Sitting atop a 1,200ft red rock plateau, UTAS's Hurricane Mesa facility has hosted ejection seat tests since the dawn of the Cold War in 1954. The hardscrabble land is home to a forest of pinyon pines, a scattering of Native American artefacts, such as abandoned fire pits and broken...
The plateau drops abruptly along northwest-trending structures toward the northeast 800 m to the Redlands area and the Colorado River in Grand Valley. In addition to common alluvial and colluvial deposits, surficial deposits include Holocene and late Pleistocene charcoal-bearing valley-fill deposits,...
Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal ResearchStelten ME, Champion DE, Kuntz MA (2017) The timing and origin of pre-and post-caldera volcanism associated with the Mesa Falls Tuff, Yellowstone Plateau volcanic field. J Volcanol Geotherm Res 350:47-60...