Magnetic fabric evidence for conduit-fed emplacement of a tabular intrusion: Dinkey Creek Pluton, central Sierra Nevada batholith, California

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 104, Issue B5, 1999, Pages 10511-10530

  Cruden, Alexander R ^a   Tobisch, Othmar T ^b   Launeau, Patrick ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE NANTES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BATHOLITH; EMPLACEMENT; IGNEOUS INTRUSION; MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; ROCK MICROSTRUCTURE; ZONATION;

CALIFORNIA; SIERRA NEVADA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033542009     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1998jb900093     Document Type: Article

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