Is stoping a volumetrically significant pluton emplacement process?

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 118, Issue 9-10, 2006, Pages 1185-1195

  Glazner, Allen F ^a   Bartley, John M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Igneous petrology; Pluton; Structural geology; Tectonics; Xenolith

Indexed keywords

ANATECTIC LIQUIDS; PLUTON; WALL-ROCK FRAGMENTS; XENOLITH;

GEOCHEMISTRY; IGNEOUS ROCKS; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; POROSITY; STOPING; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONICS;

PETROLOGY;

EMPLACEMENT; IGNEOUS GEOCHEMISTRY; MAGMATISM; PLUTON; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONICS; XENOLITH;

EID: 33749031293     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 00167606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B25738.1     Document Type: Article

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