High-Mg andesites from the Gila Bend Mountains, southwestern Arizona: Evidence for hydrous melting of lithosphere during Miocene extension

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 109, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 900-914

  Lopez, Robert ^a   Cameron, K L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOCHEMISTRY; ISOTOPES; MAGNESIA; MELTING; OLIVINE; SILICA; SILICATE MINERALS; TECTONICS; VOLCANIC ROCKS; VOLCANOES;

BASALTIC ANDESITE; CENOZOIC VOLCANIC ROCKS; CRUSTAL CONTAMINATION; GEOCHEMICAL CHARACTERISTIC; MANTLE LITHOSPHERE; ND ISOTOPIC COMPOSITIONS; OLIVINE PHENOCRYST; TECTONIC SETTINGS; BASIN AND RANGE; HIGH-MG ANDESITES;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; VOLCANIC ROCKS;

ANDESITE; CENOZOIC; CRUSTAL CONTAMINATION; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MAGNESIUM; MIOCENE; MOUNTAIN ENVIRONMENT; SUBDUCTION ZONE; EXTENSION; HYDROUS MELTING; LITHOSPHERE;

ARIZONA; GILA COUNTY; UNITED STATES; GILA BEND MOUNTAINS; USA;

EID: 0031436071     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0016-7606(1997)109<0900:HMAFTG>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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