U-Pb ages of detrital zircons in Pacheco Pass metagraywackes: Sierran-Klamath source of mid-Cretaceous and Late Cretaceous Franciscan deposition and underplating

Tectonics

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Ernst, W G ^a   Martens, Uwe ^a   Valencia, Victor ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABLATION; ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; DEBRIS; IRON OXIDES; LEAD; QUARTZ; VOLCANOES;

CALIFORNIA; CARBONACEOUS MATTER; CLASTIC SEDIMENTS; DETRITAL ZIRCON; JURASSIC; LASER-ABLATION-ICP-MS; LATE ARCHEAN AGE; LATE CRETACEOUS; MID-CRETACEOUS; PHENGITE; PLUTONS; PROTEROZOIC; ROCK FRAGMENTS; U-PB AGES; UNDERPLATING; VOLCANIC ARC;

SILICATE MINERALS;

ARCHEAN; CRETACEOUS; DETRITAL DEPOSIT; IGNEOUS ROCK; METAGREYWACKE; PLUTONISM; PROTEROZOIC; SLAB; THRUST; UNDERPLATING; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

CALIFORNIA; PACHECO PASS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77956458737     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008TC002352     Document Type: Article

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