Exhumation history of the Orocopia Schist and related rocks in the Gavilan Hills area of southeasternmost California

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 365, Issue , 2002, Pages 129-154

  Jacobson, Carl E ^a   Grove, Marty ^b   Stamp, Matthew M ^a   Vucic, Ana ^a   Oyarzabal, Felix R ^a   Haxel, Gordon B ^c   Tosdal, Richard M ^d   Sherrod, David R ^c  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOTITE; CRYSTALLINE ROCKS; FAULTING; FELDSPAR; FISSION REACTIONS; MICA; PHOSPHATE MINERALS;

AMPHIBOLITE FACIES; APATITE FISSION TRACKS; HIGH TEMPERATURE DEFORMATION; METAVOLCANIC ROCKS; NORMAL FAULTING; STRUCTURAL FABRIC; SUBDUCTION THRUST; THERMAL HISTORY;

LANDFORMS;

AMPHIBOLITE; APATITE; CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; CRYSTALLINE ROCK; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; DOME; EXHUMATION; GNEISS; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; MIOCENE; MUSCOVITE; ORIENTATION; OVERPRINTING; PETROGRAPHY; PROGRADE METAMORPHISM;

ARIZONA; CALIFORNIA; CHOCOLATE MOUNTAINS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84870941180     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2365-5.129     Document Type: Article

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