U-Pb geochronology of mid-Cretaceous and Tertiary plutons along the western edge of the Coast Mountains, Revillagigedo Island, and Portland Peninsula, southeast Alaska

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 343, Issue , 2000, Pages 145-157

  Rubin, Charles M ^a   Saleeby, Jason B ^b  

^a CENTRAL WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINARY ALLOYS; GEOCHRONOLOGY; LANDFORMS; LEAD ALLOYS; SILICATE MINERALS; ZIRCON;

ARC MAGMATISM; COAST MOUNTAINS; CRUSTAL MATERIALS; CRUSTAL ROCKS; DERIVED MATERIALS; FIELD STUDIES; MID-CRETACEOUS; U-PB GEOCHRONOLOGY;

URANIUM ALLOYS;

CRETACEOUS; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; GEOCHRONOLOGY; MAGMATISM; PETROGENESIS; PLUTON; PROTEROZOIC; PROVENANCE; TERTIARY; TONALITE; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

ALASKA; COAST MOUNTAINS; KETCHIKAN; PORTLAND BASIN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84870918519     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2343-4.145     Document Type: Article

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