Buoyancy sources for a large, unrooted mountain range, the Sierra Nevada, California: Evidence from xenolith thermobarometry

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 101, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 8229-8244

  Ducea, Mihai N ^a   Saleeby, Jason B ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUOYANCY; CRUSTAL THINNING; GEOTHERMOBAROMETRY; ISOSTASY; TOPOGRAPHY; XENOLITH;

USA, CALIFORNIA, SIERRA NEVADA;

EID: 0029772103     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/95jb03452     Document Type: Article

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