Detrital zircon provenance analysis of the Great Valley Group, California: Evolution of an arc-forearc system

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 114, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1564-1580

  DeGraaff Surpless, Kathleen ^a   Graham, Stephan A ^a   Wooden, Joseph L ^b   McWilliams, Michael O ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

California; Forearc basins; Great Valley; Provenance; Sierra Nevada; Zircon

Indexed keywords

VOLCANIC FRONT;

CATCHMENTS; DEFORMATION; DRAINAGE; MORPHOLOGY;

GEOLOGY;

CRETACEOUS; FOREARC BASIN; MAGMATISM; PROVENANCE; SEDIMENTATION; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; ZIRCON;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0036966481     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0016-7606(2002)114<1564:DZPAOT>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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