Relationship of voluminous ignimbrites to continental arc plutons: Petrology of Jurassic ignimbrites and contemporaneous plutons in southern California

Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research

Volumn 189, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 1-11

  Fohey Breting, N K ^a   Barth, A P ^a   Wooden, J L ^b   Mazdab, F K ^b   Carter, C A ^a   Schermer, E R ^c  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

California; contemporaneous plutons; ignimbrite; Jurassic; Mesozoic; plutons; Sidewinder; trace element; tuff; zircons

Indexed keywords

CALIFORNIA; IGNIMBRITES; JURASSIC; MESOZOIC; PLUTONS;

AGRICULTURAL CHEMICALS; CAVITY RESONATORS; GEOCHRONOLOGY; PETROGRAPHY; ROCKS; SILICA; SILICATE MINERALS; VOLCANIC ROCKS; ZIRCON;

TRACE ELEMENTS;

ASH FLOW; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; GEOCHRONOLOGY; HYDROTHERMAL ALTERATION; IGNIMBRITE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; JURASSIC; MESOZOIC; PETROGENESIS; PETROLOGY; PLUTON; PLUTONISM; RARE EARTH ELEMENT; TRACE ELEMENT; TUFF; VOLCANIC ROCK; VOLCANISM; ZIRCON;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

CROTALUS CERASTES;

EID: 72449186518     PISSN: 03770273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2009.07.010     Document Type: Article

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