Magmatism and tectonics in a tilted crustal section through a continental arc, eastern Transverse Ranges and southern Mojave Desert

GSA Field Guides

Volumn 11, Issue , 2008, Pages 101-117

  Barth, Andrew P ^a   Anderson, J Lawford ^b   Jacobson, Carl E ^c   Paterson, Scott R ^a   Wooden, Joseph L ^d  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

California; Geochronology; Petrology; Structural geology; Tectonics

Indexed keywords

GEOCHRONOLOGY; PETROLOGY; STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS; TECTONICS;

ARC MAGMATISM; CALIFORNIA; COLORADO RIVER; MOJAVE DESERT; SAN ANDREAS FAULT; SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA; STRUCTURAL LEVELS; TEMPORAL RELATIONSHIPS;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

EID: 72449154264     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2008.fld011(05)     Document Type: Article

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