Tectonic setting of Mesozoic magmatism: A comparison between northeastern Russia and the North American Cordillera

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 360, Issue , 2002, Pages 313-332

  Miller, Elizabeth L ^a   Gelman, Mikhail ^b   Parfenov, Leonid ^c   Hourigan, Jeremy ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGY AND SOIL SCIENCE   (Russian Federation)

^c RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEFORMATION; ISLAND ARC; MAGMATISM; MESOZOIC; TECTONIC SETTING;

NORTH AMERICAN CORDILLERA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 69549144127     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2360-4.313     Document Type: Review

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