The white mountain granitoid suite: isotopic constraints on source reservoirs for cretaceous magmatism within the wrangellia terrane

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 431, Issue , 2007, Pages 379-399

  Snyder, Darin C ^a   Hart, William K ^a  

^a MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Granitoid; Isotopic composition; Magmatism; Wrangell Mountains; Wrangellia terrane

Indexed keywords

ALKALINITY; BIOTITE; EXPLORATORY GEOCHEMISTRY; FELDSPAR; ISOTOPES; LANDFORMS; LITHOLOGY; MAGNESIA; MICA; RARE EARTHS; SILICA; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONICS;

GRANITOID; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MAGMATISMS; WRANGELL MOUNTAINS; WRANGELLIA TERRANE;

IGNEOUS ROCKS;

AMPHIBOLE; BIOTITE; CONTINENTAL ARC; CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; COOLING; CRETACEOUS; ENCLAVE; GRANITOID; GRANODIORITE; ISLAND ARC; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MAGMA; MAGMATISM; MOUNTAIN; PLAGIOCLASE; TECTONIC SETTING; TERRANE;

UNITED STATES; WHITE MOUNTAIN; WYOMING;

EID: 76749125392     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2007.2431(15)     Document Type: Article

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