Is stoping a volumetrically significant pluton emplacement process?: Discussion

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 120, Issue 7-8, 2008, Pages 1075-1079

  Paterson, Scott R ^a   Pignotta, Geoffrey S ^a,b   Farris, David ^a   Memeti, Valbone ^a   Miller, Robert B ^c   Vernon, Ron H ^a,d   Žák, Jiří ^e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN EAU CLAIRE   (United States)

^c SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^f CZECH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMPLACEMENT; IGNEOUS ROCK; PLUTON;

EID: 49749102829     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 00167606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B26148.1     Document Type: Note

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