Ophiolite and volcanic arc assemblages on the Vizcaíno Peninsula and Cedros Island, Baja California Sur, México: Mesozoic forearc lithosphere of the Cordilleran magmatic arc

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 374, Issue , 2003, Pages 43-71

  Kimbrough, David L ^a   Moore, Thomas E ^b  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Baja California; Mesozoic; Ophiolite; Petrology; Stratigraphy; Tectonics; Volcanic arc

Indexed keywords

BUILDINGS; GASOLINE; GEOCHEMISTRY; HYDRAULIC STRUCTURES; PETROLOGY; ROCKS; STRATIGRAPHY; TECTONICS;

BAJA CALIFORNIA; MESOZOIC; OPHIOLITE; PENINSULAR RANGES BATHOLITH; SHEETED DIKE COMPLEX; SUPRASUBDUCTION ZONE; VOLCANIC ARC; VOLCANOGENIC SEDIMENTS;

VOLCANOES;

BATHOLITH; BONINITE; HIGH PRESSURE; JURASSIC-CRETACEOUS BOUNDARY; LITHOSPHERE; MESOZOIC; OPHIOLITE; PLUTONIC ROCK; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TECTONICS; VOLCANIC ARC;

BAJA CALIFORNIA SUR; BAJA CALIFORNIA [(STT) MEXICO]; CEDROS ISLAND; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; VIZCAINO DESERT;

EID: 84870899653     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2374-4.43     Document Type: Article

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