Late Jurassic plutonism in the southwest U.S. Cordillera

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 438, Issue , 2008, Pages 379-396

  Barth, Andrew P ^a   Wooden, Joseph L ^b   Howard, Keith A ^b   Richards, Joshua L ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Geochronology; Jurassic; Plutonism; Tectonics

Indexed keywords

GEOCHRONOLOGY; HYDRAULIC STRUCTURES;

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; JURASSIC; LATE CRETACEOUS; MIDDLE JURASSIC; PLATE RECONSTRUCTION; PLUTONISM; SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA; STEADY STATE PROCESS;

TECTONICS;

AGE DETERMINATION; DIKE SWARM; EMPLACEMENT; GEOCHRONOLOGY; HYPABYSSAL ROCK; JURASSIC; MAGMATISM; PLUTONIC ROCK; PLUTONISM; TECTONIC RECONSTRUCTION; TECTONIC SETTING;

ARIZONA; CALIFORNIA; MOJAVE DESERT; NORTH AMERICAN CORDILLERA; TRANSVERSE RANGES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 75249094206     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2008.2438(13)     Document Type: Article

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