Subduction and the rock record: Concepts developed in the Franciscan Complex, California

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 338, Issue , 1999, Pages 123-133

  Wakabayashi, John ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION; PETROGRAPHY; ROCK PROPERTY; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TECTONIC SETTING;

BRAZIL; CALIFORNIA; SAO FRANCISCO CRATON; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84871037983     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2338-8.123     Document Type: Article

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