Mesozoic petrotectonic development of the Sawyers Bar suprasubduction-zone arc, central Klamath Mountains, northern California

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 111, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1217-1232

  Ernst, W G ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASALT; FAULTING; GOLD DEPOSITS; ISOTOPES; MICA; OFFSHORE OIL WELL PRODUCTION; RARE EARTHS; TEMPERATURE;

FLUID-ROCK INTERACTION; LIGHT RARE EARTH ELEMENTS; LOW TEMPERATURE ALTERATION; METAVOLCANIC ROCKS; RANGE-FRONT FAULTING; SUBSEA ENVIRONMENT; SUPRASUBDUCTION ZONE; TEMPERATURE INCREASE;

ALKALINITY;

PETROLOGY; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TECTONICS;

CALIFORNIA; KLAMATH MOUNTAINS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033461191     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0016-7606(1999)111<1217:MPDOTS>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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