Faulted and tilted Pliocene olivine-tholeiite lavas near Alturas, NE California, and their bearing on the uplift of the Warner Range

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 118, Issue 9-10, 2006, Pages 1196-1211

  Carmichael, Ian S E ^a   Lange, Rebecca A ^b   Hall, Chris M ^b   Renne, Paul R ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c BERKELEY GEOCHRONOLOGY CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Basin and Range; Geochronology; Low potassium olivine tholeiites; Spatter volcano; Surprise Valley

Indexed keywords

BASALTIC ANDESITE SPATTER VOLCANO; CRETACEOUS EXHUMATION RATE; MIOCENE-OLIGOCENE LAVAS;

BASALT; GEOCHRONOLOGY; SEISMOLOGY; VOLCANOES;

OLIVINE;

ARGON-ARGON DATING; GEOCHRONOLOGY; LAVA; OLIVINE; PLIOCENE; THOLEIITE; UPLIFT; VOLCANO;

EID: 33748994566     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 00167606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B25918.1     Document Type: Article

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