Regional tilt of the Mount Stuart batholith, Washington, determined using aluminum-in-hornblende barometry: Implications for northward translation of Baja British Columbia

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 108, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 471-488

  Ague, Jay J ^a   Brandon, Mark T ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; BAROMETERS; COERCIVE FORCE; FELDSPAR; REMANENCE; RESTORATION; SOLID SOLUTIONS;

BACKSCATTERED ELECTRON IMAGING; CLOCKWISE ROTATION; GRANITIC PLUTONS; MINERAL ASSEMBLAGE; PALEOMAGNETIC DATA; PRESSURE ESTIMATION; PRESSURE SENSITIVE; QUANTITATIVE METHOD; BAROMETRY; BRITISH COLUMBIA; WASHINGTON; WASHINGTON STATE;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; BAROMETERS;

ALUMINUM COMPOUND; AUREOLE; BAROMETRY; BATHOLITH; CRETACEOUS; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTRON DENSITY; HORNBLENDE; TILT; ALUMINIUM IN HORNBLENDE BAROMETER; GEOBAROMETRY; PALAEOMAGNETISM; TECTONIC RECONSTRUCTION; TILTING;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; CASCADE RANGE; MOUNT STUART; UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON [UNITED STATES]; CASCADES; USA; WASHINGTON;

EID: 0029752034     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0016-7606(1996)108<0471:RTOTMS>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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