Miocene magmatism in the Bodie Hills volcanic field, California and Nevada: A long-lived eruptive center in the southern segment of the ancestral Cascades arc

Geosphere

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 44-97

  John, David A ^a   du Bray, Edward A ^b   Blakely, Richard J ^a   Fleck, Robert J ^a   Vikre, Peter G ^c   Box, Stephen E ^d   Moring, Barry C ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^d U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMPLACEMENT; EXPLOSIVE VOLCANISM; HYDROTHERMAL SYSTEM; IGNEOUS GEOCHEMISTRY; MAGMATISM; MIOCENE; PLUTON; STRATOVOLCANO; VOLCANIC ERUPTION; VOLCANIC ROCK;

CALIFORNIA; MONO LAKE; NEVADA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84862595857     PISSN: 1553-040     EISSN: 1553040X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/GES00674.1     Document Type: Article

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