Sedimentary record of the Late Cretaceous thrusting and collapse of the Salinia-Mojave magmatic arc

Geology

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 327-330

  Schott, Ronald C ^a   Johnson, Clark M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINARY ALLOYS; DEPOSITION; ISOTOPES; NEODYMIUM ALLOYS; STRONTIUM ALLOYS;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CALIFORNIA; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; LATE CRETACEOUS; MAGMATIC ARCS; SEDIMENTARY RECORDS; SR-ND ISOTOPES; UPPER CRETACEOUS;

GRANITE;

CLAST; COLLAPSE; CONGLOMERATE; CRETACEOUS; GRANITE; MAGMA; RHYOLITE; THRUST; PALAEOGEOGRAPHY; THRUSTING;

CALIFORNIA; GUALALA BASIN; UNITED STATES; USA;

EID: 0031597326     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1998)026<0327:SROTLC>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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