Exhumation of the Orocopia Schist and associated rocks of southeastern California: Relative roles of erosion, synsubduction tectonic denudation, and middle Cenozoic extension

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 419, Issue , 2007, Pages 1-37

  Jacobson, Carl E ^a   Grove, Marty ^b   Vućić, Ana ^c   Pedrick, Jane N ^a   Ebert, Kristin A ^c  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Argon; Core complex; Detachment fault; Pelona schist; Rand schist

Indexed keywords

APATITE; ARGON; BIOTITE; EROSION; FELDSPAR; FISSION REACTIONS; LANDFORMS; MICA; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); SILICATE MINERALS; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

APATITE FISSION TRACK AGES; APATITE FISSION TRACKS; CORE COMPLEX; DETACHMENT FAULT; DUCTILE DEFORMATIONS; EPIDOTE AMPHIBOLITE; PELONA SCHIST; RAND SCHIST;

FAULTING;

AMPHIBOLITE FACIES; BIOTITE; CENOZOIC; DENUDATION; DETACHMENT FAULT; DUCTILE DEFORMATION; EXHUMATION; EXTENSION; HORNBLENDE; LARAMIDE OROGENY; LEUCOGRANITE; MUSCOVITE; MYLONITE; PROGRADE METAMORPHISM; PROTEROZOIC; RETROGRESSION; SCHIST; SUBDUCTION; TERRANE;

ARIZONA; CALIFORNIA; CHOCOLATE MOUNTAINS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 69649089286     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2007.2419(01)     Document Type: Conference Paper

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