New 40Ar/39Ar ages reveal contemporaneous mafic and silicic eruptions during the past 160,000 years at Mammoth Mountain and Long Valley caldera, California

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 122, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 396-407

  Mahood, Gail A ^a   Ring, Joshua H ^b   Manganelli, Simone ^a   McWilliams, Michael O ^c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Nichols School   (United States)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKALI BASALT; ANTICORRELATION; BASALTIC MAGMA; CALIFORNIA; EASTERN CALIFORNIA; LAVA FLOWS; LONG VALLEY CALDERA; MAGMATIC PLUMBING SYSTEM; MAMMOTH MOUNTAIN; PLEISTOCENE; SHALLOW CRUST; SILICIC LAVAS; SILICIC MAGMAS; VOLCANIC HAZARDS;

BASALT; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; PLUMBING;

LANDFORMS;

ARGON-ARGON DATING; BASALT; CALDERA; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GLACIATION; IGNEOUS INTRUSION; LAVA DOME; MAFIC ROCK; MAGMA; PLEISTOCENE; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

CALIFORNIA; LONG VALLEY CALDERA; MAMMOTH MOUNTAIN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77951005876     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 00167606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B26396.1     Document Type: Article

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