Provenance and thermal history of the Franciscan accretionary complex: Constraints from zircon fission track thermochronology

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 101, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 11353-11364

  Tagami, Takahiro ^a   Dumitru, Trevor A ^b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCRETIONARY COMPLEX; FISSION TRACK ANALYSIS; PROVENANCE; SUBDUCTION; THERMAL EVOLUTION; ZIRCON;

USA, CALIFORNIA, COAST RANGES, FRANCISCAN COMPLEX;

EID: 0029730371     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96jb00407     Document Type: Article

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