U-Pb geochronology and geochemistry of the McCoy Mountains Formation, southeastern California: A Cretaceous retroarc foreland basin

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 116, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 142-153

  Barth, Andrew P ^a   Wooden, Joseph L ^b   Jacobson, Carl E ^c   Probst, Kelly ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

California; Geochemistry; Geochronology; Stratigraphy; Tectonics

Indexed keywords

JURASSIC AGES; POLEOGEOGRAPHY;

DEFORMATION; DEPOSITION; GEOCHEMISTRY; SANDSTONE; SEDIMENTS; STRATIGRAPHY; ZIRCON;

GEOCHRONOLOGY;

CRETACEOUS; FORELAND BASIN; GEOCHEMISTRY; GEOCHRONOLOGY; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; STRATIGRAPHY;

CALIFORNIA; MCCOY MOUNTAINS; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 1142281989     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B25288.1     Document Type: Article

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