The Peninsular Ranges Batholith: An insight into the evolution of the Cordilleran batholiths of southwestern North America

Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences

Volumn 79, Issue 2-3, 1988, Pages 105-121

  Silver, L T ^a   Chappell, B W ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

asymmetry; Baja California; California; Cretaceous; gabbro; geochemistry; geochronology; granite; granodiorite; isotopes; petrogenesis; plutonic; plutonic arc; tonalite

Indexed keywords

CORDILLERAN BATHOLITHS; CRETACEOUS; MAGMATIC ARC;

NORTH AMERICA, PENINSULAR RANGES BATHOLITH;

EID: 0024194691     PISSN: 02635933     EISSN: 14737116     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0263593300014152     Document Type: Article

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