The mid-Miocene Wilson Ridge pluton and River Mountains volcanic section, Lake Mead area of Nevada and Arizona: Linking a volcanic and plutonic section

GSA Field Guides

Volumn 11, Issue , 2008, Pages 1-20

  Honn, Denise ^a   Smith, Eugene I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Geochronology; Lake Mead; Petrology; Plutonic rocks; Volcanoes

Indexed keywords

FAULTING; GEOCHRONOLOGY; LAKES; LITHOLOGY; PETROLOGY;

ARIZONA; CRUSTAL EXTENSION; DETACHMENT FAULT; FIELD TRIPS; LAKE MEADS; MIOCENE; PLUTONIC ROCKS;

VOLCANOES;

EID: 80355123171     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2008.fld011(01)     Document Type: Article

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