Ophiolitic basement to a forearc basin and implications for continental growth: The Coast Range/Great Valley ophiolite, California

Tectonics

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 558-570

  Godfrey, Nicola J ^a   Klemperer, Simon L ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASEMENT ROCK; FOREARC BASIN; OPHIOLITE; TECTONICS;

UNITED STATES, CALIFORNIA;

EID: 0032437981     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98TC01536     Document Type: Article

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88. N.J. Godfrey, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089. (e-mail: nicola@earth.usc.edu)
89. S.L. Klemperer, Department of Geophysics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305. (e-mail: klemp@pangea.stanford.edu)