Intracrustal subduction and gravity currents in the deep crust: Sm-Nd, Ar-Ar, and thermobarometric constraints from the Skagit Gneiss Complex, Washington

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 109, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 1149-1166

  Wernicke, Brian ^a   Getty, Stephen R ^b,c  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINARY ALLOYS; COOLING; CRYSTALLINE ROCKS; FELDSPAR; GARNETS; GRAVITATION; GRAVITY WAVES; LEAD ALLOYS; MICA; NEODYMIUM ALLOYS; SILICATE MINERALS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; ZIRCON; SAMARIUM ALLOYS;

CRUSTAL THINNING; CRYSTALLINE COMPLEXES; EFFECTIVE VISCOSITY; GNEISS COMPLEXES; GRAVITY CURRENTS; ISOTHERMAL DECOMPRESSION; METAMORPHIC CORE COMPLEX; PRINCIPAL STRESS; LATE CRETACEOUS;

SAMARIUM ALLOYS; NEODYMIUM ALLOYS;

ARGON-ARGON DATING; CONTINENTAL COLLISION; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DIORITE; GNEISS; GRAVITY WAVE; METAPELITE; QUARTZ; SAMARIUM-NEODYMIUM DATING; SUBDUCTION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; WALL ROCK; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GEOTHERMOBAROMETRY; GRAVITY CURRENT; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; LOWER CRUST;

SKAGIT COUNTY; UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON [UNITED STATES]; USA; WASHINGTON;

EID: 0031446614     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0016-7606(1997)109<1149:ISAGCI>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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