Pluton emplacement in arcs: A crustal-scale exchange process

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 315, Issue , 1996, Pages 115-123

  Paterson, Scott R ^a   Fowler Jr , T Kenneth ^a   Miller, Robert B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arcs; Crustal scale exchange processes; Plulon emplacemenl

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; HORIZONTAL WELLS; ROCKS; STRAIN; ZONING;

ARCS; COMPOSITIONAL VARIATION; EXCHANGE PROCESS; HORIZONTAL DEFLECTION; HORIZONTAL DISPLACEMENTS; MAGMA PLUMBING SYSTEM; PLULON EMPLACEMENL; REGIONAL DEFORMATIONS;

ROOFS;

AUREOLE; COUNTRY ROCK; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DEFLECTION; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; DISPLACEMENT; EMPLACEMENT; MAGMA; PLUTON; ROOF;

EID: 0345676965     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2315-9.115     Document Type: Article

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