Causes of compositional diversity in a lobe of the Half Dome granodiorite, Tuolumne Batholith, Central Sierra Nevada, California

Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Volumn 100, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 173-183

  Economos, R C ^a   Memeti, V ^a   Paterson, S R ^a   Miller, J S ^b   Erdmann, S ^c   Zak J ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^e CZECH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

fractional crystallisation; magmatic processes; plutons

Indexed keywords

BATHOLITH; CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; EMPLACEMENT; FRACTIONAL CRYSTALLIZATION; GRANODIORITE; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION; LEUCOGRANITE; MAGMA CHAMBER; PLUTON; QUARTZ; TRACE ELEMENT;

CALIFORNIA; SIERRA NEVADA [CALIFORNIA]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77957346249     PISSN: 17556910     EISSN: 17556929     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1755691009016065     Document Type: Conference Paper

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