Low-potassium, trondhjemitic to granodioritic plutonism in the eastern Blue Ridge, southwestern North Carolina-northeastern Georgia

Memoir of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 191, Issue , 1997, Pages 235-254

  Miller, C F ^a   Fullagar, Paul D ^b   Sando, T W ^c   Kish, S A ^d   Solomon, G C ^e   Russell, G S ^f   Steltenpohl, L F Wood ^g  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^f University of Southern Mississippi   (United States)

^g Roy FWeston Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISOTOPES; POTASSIUM; TRACE ELEMENTS;

APPALACHIAN OROGEN; CRUSTAL THICKENINGS; EARLY PALEOZOIC; GEOCHEMICAL CHARACTERISTIC; HIGH FIELD STRENGTHS; INTRUSIVE ROCKS; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; TRACE ELEMENT MODELING;

ROCKS;

AMPHIBOLITE FACIES; GRANODIORITE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MAFIC ROCK; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PLUTONISM; POTASSIUM; PROTEROZOIC;

APPALACHIANS; BLUE RIDGE MOUNTAINS; GEORGIA; NORTH CAROLINA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0013215377     PISSN: 00721069     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-1191-6.235     Document Type: Article

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