Temporal and spatial trends of Late Cretaceous-early Tertiary underplating of Pelona and related schist beneath southern California and southwestern Arizona

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 374, Issue , 2003, Pages 381-406

  Grove, Marty ^a   Jacobson, Carl E ^b   Barth, Andrew P ^c   Vucic, Ana ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Detrital mineral; Orocopia Schist; Pelona Schist; Rand Schist; U Pb; Zircon

Indexed keywords

BINARY ALLOYS; BUILDINGS; CRYSTALLINE ROCKS; LEAD ALLOYS; MICA; ZIRCON;

DETRITAL ZIRCON; LATE CRETACEOUS; OROCOPIA SCHIST; PELONA SCHIST; RAND SCHIST; SIERRA NEVADA BATHOLITH; SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL;

URANIUM ALLOYS;

CRETACEOUS; GRAYWACKE; HIGH PRESSURE; HIGH TEMPERATURE; MICA; PROTOLITH; SCHIST; TERRANE; UNDERPLATING; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

ARIZONA; CALIFORNIA; COAST RANGES; MOJAVE DESERT; SALINAS BASIN; SAN EMIGDIO MOUNTAINS; SIERRA NEVADA [CALIFORNIA]; SOUTH AFRICA; TRANSVERSE RANGES; UNITED STATES; WITWATERSRAND;

EID: 34548078562     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2374-4.381     Document Type: Article

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