Birth of the Sierra Nevada magmatic arc: Early Mesozoic plutonism and volcanism in the east-central Sierra Nevada of California

Geosphere

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 877-897

  Barth, A P ^a   Walker, J D ^b   Wooden, J L ^c   Riggs, N R ^d   Schweickert, R A ^e  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DETERMINATION; CONTINENTAL ARC; CRETACEOUS; EMPLACEMENT; GRANITE; IGNEOUS INTRUSION; IGNIMBRITE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MAGMA; PLUTONISM; TRIASSIC; VOLCANIC ROCK; VOLCANISM;

CALIFORNIA; SIERRA NEVADA [CALIFORNIA]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 80054769495     PISSN: 1553-040     EISSN: 1553040X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/GES00661.1     Document Type: Article

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