Magmatic tubes, pipes, troughs, diapirs, and plumes: Late-stage convective instabilities resulting in compositional diversity and permeable networks in crystal-rich magmas of the Tuolumne batholith, Sierra Nevada, California

Geosphere

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 496-527

  Paterson, Scott R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BATHOLITH; CRYSTAL PROPERTY; DIAPIR; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; GEOCHRONOLOGY; MAFIC ROCK; MAGMA CHAMBER; MAGMATISM; PLUTON; TROUGH; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

EID: 77952011339     PISSN: 1553-040     EISSN: 1553040X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/GES00214.1     Document Type: Article

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