Grand Tour - Part 2: Petrogenesis and thermal evolution of deep continental crust: the record from the East Humboldt Range, Nevada

Brigham Young University Geology Studies

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 270-296

  Mcgrew, Allen J ^a   Peters, Mark T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON   (United States)

^b Woodward Clyde Federal Services   (United States)

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