Relationships between crustal partial melting, plutonism, orogeny, and exhumation: Idaho-Bitterroot batholith

Tectonophysics

Volumn 342, Issue 3-4, 2001, Pages 313-350

  Foster, David A ^a   Schafer, Carl ^b   Fanning, C Mark ^c   Hyndman, Donald W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Batholith; Bitterroot range; Continental tectonics; Geochronology; Idaho batholith; Metamorphic core complex; Orogeny; Partial melting

Indexed keywords

BATHOLITH; CRETACEOUS; EXHUMATION; OROGENY; PARTIAL MELTING; PLUTONISM; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TERTIARY;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0035693344     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(01)00169-X     Document Type: Article

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