Muscovite-garnet granites in the Mojave Desert: Relation to crustal structure of the Cretaceous arc

Geology

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 335-338

  Miller, Jonathan S ^a   Glazner, Allen F ^a   Crowe, Douglas E ^b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GARNETS; MICA;

CALIFORNIA; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; LATE CRETACEOUS; MOJAVE DESERT; SIERRA NEVADA; SOUTHERN SIERRA NEVADA; UPPER CRETACEOUS; GRANITOIDS;

GRANITE;

BATHOLITH; CRETACEOUS; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; EMPLACEMENT; GARNET; GRANITE; GRANITOID; MUSCOVITE; SCHIST; ANATEXIS; PETROGENESIS;

CALIFORNIA; MOJAVE DESERT; SIERRA NEVADA [CALIFORNIA]; UNITED STATES; USA;

EID: 0029729361     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1996)024<0335:MGGITM>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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