Detrital zircon evidence for progressive underthrusting in Franciscan metagraywackes, west-central California

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 122, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 282-291

  Snow, Cameron A ^a   Wakabayashi, John ^b   Ernst, W G ^c   Wooden, Joseph L ^d  

^a APACHE CORPORATION   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; ALLOCHTHONS; CALIFORNIA; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; DETRITAL ZIRCON; FRANCISCAN COMPLEX; JURASSIC; LATE CRETACEOUS; MESOZOIC; METASEDIMENTARY ROCKS; PALEOZOIC; SAN FRANCISCO BAY; SHEAR ZONE; SIERRA NEVADA; UNDERPLATING; ZIRCON AGE;

CAVITY RESONATORS; LANDFORMS; PRISMS; SILICATE MINERALS; ZIRCON;

VOLCANIC ROCKS;

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; DEPOSITION; DETRITAL DEPOSIT; ISLAND ARC; JURASSIC-CRETACEOUS BOUNDARY; MELANGE; METAGREYWACKE; MODELING; NAPPE; SEDIMENTATION; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TRENCH; UNDERPLATING; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77950336773     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 00167606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B26399.1     Document Type: Article

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