Mineral parageneses, regional architecture, and tectonic evolution of Franciscan metagraywackes, Cape Mendocino-Garberville-Covelo 30′ × 60′ quadrangles, northwest California

Tectonics

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Ernst, W G ^a   McLaughlin, Robert J ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBONATE MINERALS; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; RECRYSTALLIZATION (METALLURGY); ROCKS; TECTONICS; VOLCANIC ROCKS;

ALLOCHTHONS; BURIAL DEPTHS; CALIFORNIA; CHEMICAL EQUILIBRIUMS; FRANCISCAN COMPLEX; MINERAL ASSEMBLAGE; MINERAL PARAGENESIS; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; PALEOGENE; PREHNITE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

SILICATE MINERALS;

ACCRETION; ALLOCHTHON; EXHUMATION; MELANGE; METAGREYWACKE; MINERALOGY; OUTLIER; P-T CONDITIONS; PARAGENESIS; PREHNITE; PUMPELLYITE; RECRYSTALLIZATION; SANDSTONE; SUBDUCTION; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TERRANE; THRUST;

CALIFORNIA; CAPE MENDOCINO; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84855930075     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011TC002987     Document Type: Article

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