Tectonic development of the southern California deserts

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 338, Issue , 1999, Pages 375-380

  Walker, J Douglas ^a   Glazner, Allen F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL CRUST; DIKE; DOME; EMPLACEMENT; MANTLE CHEMISTRY; OPHIOLITE; SUBSIDENCE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; UPLIFT; VOLCANOLOGY;

EID: 84871081491     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2338-8.375     Document Type: Article

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