Mountain building across a lithospheric boundary during arc construction: The Cretaceous Peninsular Ranges batholith in the Sierra San Pedro Martir of Baja California, Mexico

Tectonophysics

Volumn 477, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 292-310

  Schmidt, K L ^a   Paterson, S R ^b   Blythe, A E ^c   Kopf, C ^d  

^a LEWIS CLARK STATE COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^d MANSFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arc orogen; Cretaceous Peninsular Ranges batholith; Lithospheric boundary; Mountain building

Indexed keywords

APATITE FISSION TRACKS; ARC MAGMATISM; ARC OROGEN; AVERAGE ELEVATION; CALIFORNIA; COOLING AGE; CRETACEOUS PENINSULAR RANGES BATHOLITH; CRUSTAL COMPOSITION; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; EASTERN SIDE; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FAN STRUCTURE; FOREARC; GREENSCHIST; ISLAND ARC; K-FELDSPAR; LATE CRETACEOUS; LITHOSPHERIC; LITHOSPHERIC BOUNDARY; MAGMATISMS; ME-XICO; METAMORPHIC GRADE; MID-CRETACEOUS; MOUNTAIN BUILDING; MYLONITES; OROGENS; PALEOGENE; PEAK PRESSURE; PENINSULAR RANGES BATHOLITH; PLUTONS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SURFACE ELEVATIONS; TECTONIC BOUNDARIES; THERMOBAROMETRY; TRANSITION ZONES; U-PB ZIRCON AGES; WESTERN SIDE;

BUILDINGS; CAVITY RESONATORS; DEFORMATION; FELDSPAR; GEOCHRONOLOGY; LANDFORMS; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; MICA; PHOSPHATE MINERALS; ROCKS; SILICATE MINERALS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; ZIRCON;

TECTONICS;

AGE DETERMINATION; ARGON-ARGON DATING; BATHOLITH; BIOTITE; CONTINENTAL ARC; CRETACEOUS; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; CRUSTAL THICKENING; DEFORMATION; DENUDATION; EXHUMATION; FELDSPAR; FISSION TRACK DATING; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MAGMATISM; MOUNTAIN; OROGENY; PALEOGENE; PLATE BOUNDARY; SEAFLOOR; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; THRUST;

BAJA CALIFORNIA [(STT) MEXICO]; CALIFORNIA; COAST RANGES; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA; PENINSULAR RANGES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 70350155190     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2009.04.020     Document Type: Article

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