The Franciscan: California's classic subduction complex

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 338, Issue , 1999, Pages 111-121

  Wakabayashi, John ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); SHALE;

CONTINENTAL SHELVES; LATE JURASSIC; LITHOSPHERIC; MID-CRETACEOUS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PILLOW LAVAS; SEAFLOOR SPREADING; STRUCTURAL BREAK;

LANDFORMS;

CHERT; CONTINENTAL SHELF; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; MESOZOIC; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; PACIFIC PLATE; SEAFLOOR; SHALE; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TECTONIC SETTING;

CALIFORNIA; COAST RANGES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 4344619464     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2338-8.111     Document Type: Article

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