Eocene potassic magmatism at Two Buttes, Colorado, with implications for Cenozoic tectonics and magma generation in the western United States

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 108, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 1567-1579

  Davis, Linda L ^a,b   Smith, Douglas ^a   McDowell, Fred W ^a   Walker, Nicholas W ^a,c   Borg, Lars E ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b IDAHO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IGNEOUS ROCKS; ISOTOPES; LANDFORMS; LITHOLOGY; NEODYMIUM; TECTONICS;

AGE DETERMINATION; CENOZOIC TECTONICS; CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; HIGH FIELD STRENGTH ELEMENTS; ISOTOPIC COMPONENTS; MANTLE LITHOSPHERE; TECTONIC SETTINGS; WESTERN UNITED STATES; MAGMA GENERATION; ROCKY MOUNTAINS;

POTASSIUM COMPOUNDS;

CENOZOIC; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; EOCENE; MAFIC ROCK; MAGMA; MAGMATISM; MELT INCLUSION; OLIGOCENE; POTASSIUM; POTASSIUM-ARGON DATING; PROTEROZOIC; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TECTONIC SETTING; PETROGENESIS; POTASSIC ROCK; SUBDUCTION;

COLORADO; GREAT PLAINS; MONTANA; ROCKY MOUNTAINS; UNITED STATES; TWO BUTTES; USA;

EID: 0030433775     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0016-7606(1996)108<1567:EPMATB>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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