Late cretaceous gravitational collapse of the southern sierra nevada batholith, California

Geosphere

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 314-341

  Chapman, Alan D ^a,b   Saleeby, Jason B ^a   Wood, David J ^a,c   Piasecki, Alison ^a   Kidder, Steven ^a   Ducea, Mihai N ^b   Farley, Kenneth A ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCRETION; AUTOCHTHON; BATHOLITH; COLLAPSE; CRETACEOUS; DISPLACEMENT; FELSIC ROCK; GEOBAROMETRY; GEOCHEMISTRY; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GRAVITY; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MAFIC ROCK; PETROLOGY; PLUTON; SUBDUCTION; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

CALIFORNIA; SIERRA NEVADA [CALIFORNIA]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84862538911     PISSN: 1553-040     EISSN: 1553040X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/GES00740.1     Document Type: Article

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