Late cretaceous-paleocene extensional collapse and disaggregation of the southernmost sierra nevada batholith

International Geology Review

Volumn 39, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 973-1009

  Wood, David J ^a   Saleeby, Jason B ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BATHOLITH; DISAGGREGATION; EXTENSIONAL FAULTING; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; UNROOFING;

USA, CALIFORNIA, SIERRA NEVADA;

EID: 0031395603     PISSN: 00206814     EISSN: 19382839     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00206819709465314     Document Type: Article

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