Cenozoic to recent plate configurations in the Pacific Basin: Ridge subduction and slab window magmatism in Western North America

Geosphere

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 11-34

  Madsen, J K ^a   Thorkelson, D J ^a   Friedman, R M ^b   Marshall, D D ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cordillera; Forearc; Geochronology; Magmatism; Ridge subduction; Slab window; Tectonics; Western north america

Indexed keywords

ARGON-ARGON DATING; CENOZOIC; CORDILLERA; EOCENE; FOREARC BASIN; GEOCHRONOLOGY; MAGMATISM; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PALEOCENE; PLATE TECTONICS; SLAB; SUBDUCTION; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

ALASKA; BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; OREGON; PACIFIC OCEAN; UNITED STATES; VANCOUVER ISLAND;

EID: 33846022653     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1553040X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/GES00020.1     Document Type: Article

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