Composition of modern sand from the Sierra Nevada, California, U.S.A.: Implications for actualistic petrofacies of continental-margin magmatic arcs

Journal of Sedimentary Research

Volumn 77, Issue 9-10, 2007, Pages 784-796

  Ingersoll, Raymond V ^a   Eastmond, Daniel J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUILDINGS; DATA ACQUISITION; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FELDSPAR; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; STATISTICS; VOLCANIC ROCKS;

ACTUALISTIC SAND(STONE) PETROFACIES; COMPOSITIONAL VARIATION; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; MAGMATIC-ARC DISSECTIONS; MENDOCINO TRIPLE JUNCTIONS; POTASSIUM FELDSPAR; SIERRA NEVADA , CALIFORNIA; SOUTHERN SIERRA NEVADA;

SAND;

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; DISSECTION; FACIES; FELDSPAR; PLUTONIC ROCK; QUARTZ; SAND; VOLCANIC ROCK;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; SIERRA NEVADA [CALIFORNIA]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 35448939293     PISSN: 15271404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2110/jsr.2007.071     Document Type: Article

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