Evaluating the Mojave-Snow Lake fault hypothesis and origins of central Sierran metasedimentary pendant strata using detrital zircon provenance analyses

Lithosphere

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 341-360

  Memeti, V ^a   Gehrels, G E ^b   Paterson, S R ^a   Thompson, J M ^c   Mueller, R M ^d   Pignotta, G S ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN EAU CLAIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY; LASER ABLATION; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; SILICATE MINERALS; SNOW; STRATIGRAPHY; VOLCANIC ROCKS; ZIRCON;

ANGULAR UNCONFORMITY; DETRITAL ZIRCON; EARLY CRETACEOUS; EARLY JURASSIC; LASER ABLATION INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRIES (LA ICP MS); NEOPROTEROZOIC; PROVENANCE ANALYSIS; SIERRA NEVADA;

LAKES;

AGE DETERMINATION; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; DETRITAL DEPOSIT; DISPLACEMENT; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA METHOD; METASEDIMENT; METAVOLCANIC ROCK; PROVENANCE; QUARTZITE; STRATIGRAPHY; ZIRCON;

CALIFORNIA; SIERRA NEVADA [CALIFORNIA]; UNITED STATES;

FRAGARIA X ANANASSA;

EID: 78549253215     PISSN: 19418264     EISSN: 19474253     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/L58.1     Document Type: Article

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