Early Cretaceous transition from nonaccretionary behavior to strongly accretionary behavior within the Franciscan subduction complex

Tectonics

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Dumitru, Trevor A ^a   Wakabayashi, John ^b   Wright, James E ^c   Wooden, Joseph L ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LANDFORMS; MICA; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; SILICATE MINERALS; VOLCANIC ROCKS;

ACCRETIONARY WEDGE; DETRITAL ZIRCON; EARLY CRETACEOUS; FORE-ARC BASIN; FOREARC; JURASSIC; MAGMATIC ARCS; METAMORPHIC AGE; MOTION VECTORS; SIERRA NEVADA; TIME SPAN; U-PB AGES; WHITE MICA;

METAMORPHIC ROCKS;

ACCRETION; ACCRETIONARY PRISM; AGE DETERMINATION; ARGON-ARGON DATING; CRETACEOUS; FAULTING; FOREARC BASIN; GEOCHRONOLOGY; METAMORPHISM; SUBDUCTION ZONE; URANIUM-LEAD DATING;

CALIFORNIA; CENTRAL VALLEY [CALIFORNIA]; SIERRA NEVADA [CALIFORNIA]; UNITED STATES;

MICAS;

EID: 77956480451     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009TC002542     Document Type: Article

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