Mesozoic magmatism in an upper- to middle-crustal section through the Cordilleran continental margin arc, eastern Transverse Ranges, California

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 456, Issue , 2009, Pages 187-218

  Needy, Sarah K ^a   Anderson, J Lawford ^b   Wooden, Joseph L ^c   Fleck, R J ^c   Barth, Andrew P ^a   Paterson, Scott R ^b   Memeti, Valbone ^b   Pignotta, Geoffrey S ^b,d  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN EAU CLAIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FELDSPAR; GEOCHRONOLOGY;

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CONTINUOUS EXPOSURE; CRUSTAL DEPTH; MAGMATIC ARCS; MAGMATIC COMPLEXES; MOJAVE DESERT; PLUTONIC ROCKS; SUPRACRUSTAL ROCKS;

ROCKS;

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLIZATION; EXHUMATION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; HORNBLENDE; IGNIMBRITE; LARAMIDE OROGENY; MAGMA; MAGMATISM; MESOZOIC; PARENT BODY; PLAGIOCLASE; PLUTONIC ROCK; UPLIFT; UPPER CRUST;

CALIFORNIA; MOJAVE DESERT; TRANSVERSE RANGES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 74949102827     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2009.2456(07)     Document Type: Article

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