Deep crustal xenoliths from central Montana, USA: Implications for the timing and mechanisms of high-velocity lower crust formation

Geosphere

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1408-1428

  Barnhart, Katherine R ^a   Mahan, Kevin H ^a   Blackburn, Terrence J ^b   Bowring, Samuel A ^b   Dudas, Francis O ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DETERMINATION; COMPRESSION; CONTINENTAL CRUST; CRUSTAL EVOLUTION; DECOMPRESSION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; INTRAPLATE PROCESS; LOWER CRUST; P-T CONDITIONS; P-WAVE; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SEISMOLOGY; SEISMOTECTONICS; TECTONIC SETTING; UNDERPLATING; XENOLITH;

BEARPAW MOUNTAINS; GREAT FALLS; MONTANA; ROCKY MOUNTAINS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84868031639     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1553040X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/GES00765.1     Document Type: Article

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