Tectonostratigraphic significance of sedimentary strata occurring within and above the Coast Range ophiolite (California Coast Ranges) and the Josephine ophiolite (Klamath Mountains), northwestern California

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 349, Issue , 2000, Pages 383-394

  Pessagno Jr , Emile A ^a   Hull, Donna M ^a   Hopson, Clifford A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COBALT DEPOSITS; PROTOZOA; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; VOLCANOES;

COAST RANGE OPHIOLITES; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; HYDROTHERMAL DEPOSITION; PALEOMAGNETIC DATA; SEDIMENT BYPASSING; SEDIMENTARY STRATA; SILICICLASTIC TURBIDITES; TECTONIC TRANSPORT;

SEDIMENTARY ROCKS;

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CHRONOSEQUENCE; CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; HIATUS; OPEN OCEAN; OPHIOLITE; RADIOLARIA; SEDIMENTARY STRUCTURE; TECTONOSTRATIGRAPHY;

CALIFORNIA MARGIN; COAST RANGES; KLAMATH MOUNTAINS; PACIFIC OCEAN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0002312567     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2349-3.383     Document Type: Article

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