Controls on orogenesis along an ocean-continent margin transition in the Jura-Cretaceous Peninsular Ranges batholith

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 365, Issue , 2002, Pages 49-71

  Schmidt, K L ^a   Wetmore, P H ^b   Johnson, S E ^c   Paterson, S R ^b  

^a LEWIS CLARK STATE COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUILDINGS; DEFORMATION; EROSION; PHOSPHORUS COMPOUNDS; RUBIDIUM COMPOUNDS; VOLCANOES;

BAJA CALIFORNIA; COOLING HISTORY; EARLY CRETACEOUS; JURASSIC SEDIMENTS; MAXIMUM PRESSURE; PENINSULAR RANGES BATHOLITH; SHEAR ZONE DEVELOPMENT; TRANSITION ZONES;

PROCESS CONTROL;

BATHOLITH; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CRETACEOUS; DEFORMATION; MAGMATISM; TRANSITION ZONE;

COAST RANGES; PENINSULAR RANGES;

EID: 0009139878     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2365-5.49     Document Type: Article

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