Assembly of a dike-fed magma chamber: The Jackass Lakes pluton, central Sierra Nevada, California

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 108, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 926-940

  McNulty, Brendan A ^a   Tong, Weixing ^a,b   Tobisch, Othmar T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINARY ALLOYS; GEOCHRONOLOGY; LAKES; LEAD ALLOYS; LEVEES; URANIUM ALLOYS;

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CRUSTAL LEVELS; FRACTURE PROPAGATION; GRANITIC MAGMAS; LATERAL EXPANSION; SIERRA NEVADA , CALIFORNIA; SMALL COMPONENTS; U-PB GEOCHRONOLOGY; ENDMEMBERS; MAGMA CHAMBER; SHEET-LIKE;

HYDRAULIC STRUCTURES;

CRETACEOUS; CRUSTAL SHORTENING; DIKE; DUCTILE DEFORMATION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GRANITE; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; MAGMA; MAGMA CHAMBER; PETROLOGY; PLUTON; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; VISCOELASTICITY; DYKE; EMPLACEMENT MECHANISM; FEEDER SYSTEM; VISCOELASTIC MODEL;

CALIFORNIA; SIERRA NEVADA [CALIFORNIA]; UNITED STATES; JACKASS PLUTON; SIERRA NEVADA; USA;

EID: 0030480881     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0016-7606(1996)108<0926:AOADFM>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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