The ancestral cascades arc: Cenozoic evolution of the central Sierra Nevada (California) and the birth of the new plate boundary

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 438, Issue , 2008, Pages 331-378

  Busby, Cathy J ^a   Hagan, Jeanette C ^a   Putirka, Keith ^b   Pluhar, Christopher J ^c   Gans, Phillip B ^a   Wagner, David L ^d   Rood, Dylan ^a   DeOreo, Steve B ^a   Skilling, Ian ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Basin and Range; Cascades arc; Geochronology; Latites; Magnetostratigraphy; Paleomagnetism; Sierra Nevada; Volcanic stratigraphy

Indexed keywords

DEBRIS; FAULTING; FELDSPAR; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GEOMAGNETISM; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); SILICA; SILICATE MINERALS; STRATIGRAPHY; VOLCANOES;

BASIN AND RANGE; CASCADES ARC; LATITES; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; PALEOMAGNETISM; SIERRA NEVADA;

VOLCANIC ROCKS;

FAULTING; FRACTIONAL CRYSTALLIZATION; MAGMATISM; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; MIOCENE; OLIGOCENE; PALEOMAGNETISM; PLATE BOUNDARY; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION; TECTONOSTRATIGRAPHY; TEPHROCHRONOLOGY; TRIPLE JUNCTION; UNCONFORMITY; UPLIFT; VOLCANIC ROCK; VOLCANISM;

BASIN AND RANGE PROVINCE; CALIFORNIA; CASCADE RANGE; LASSEN FOOTHILLS; SIERRA NEVADA [CALIFORNIA]; UNITED STATES; WALKER LANE;

EID: 75249091202     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2008.2438(12)     Document Type: Article

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