U-Pb geochronology of volcanic rocks from the jurassic talkeetna formation and detrital zircons from prearc and postarc sequences: Implications for the age of magmatism and inheritance in the talkeetna arc

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 431, Issue , 2007, Pages 253-271

  Amato, Jeffery M ^a   Rioux, Matthew E ^b   Kelemen, Peter B ^c   Gehrels, George E ^d   Clift, Peter D ^e   Pavlis, Terry L ^f   Draut, Amy E ^g  

^a NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University   (United States)

^d University of Arizona   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Alaska; Detrital zircons; Magmatism; Sedimentation; Talkeetna Formation

Indexed keywords

BINARY ALLOYS; GEOCHRONOLOGY; LEAD ALLOYS; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; SEDIMENTATION; SILICATE MINERALS; TECTONICS; URANIUM ALLOYS; VOLCANOES; ZIRCON;

ALASKA; ARC MAGMATISM; DETRITAL ZIRCON; MAGMATISMS; TALKEETNA FORMATION; TALKEETNA MOUNTAINS; TECTONIC SETTINGS; U-PB GEOCHRONOLOGY;

VOLCANIC ROCKS;

BATHOLITH; DETRITUS; GEOCHRONOLOGY; MAGMATISM; PROTEROZOIC; SEDIMENTARY ROCK; SEDIMENTATION; TECTONIC SETTING; VOLCANIC ROCK; VOLCANISM;

ALASKA; TALKEETNA MOUNTAINS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 76749090110     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2007.2431(11)     Document Type: Article

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