Earliest Cretaceous Pacificward offset of the Klamath Mountains salient, NW California-SW Oregon

Lithosphere

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 151-159

  Ernst, W G ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OFFSHORE OIL WELL PRODUCTION; SEDIMENTATION; VOLCANOES;

CLASTIC MATERIALS; COAST RANGE OPHIOLITES; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; IGNEOUS ACTIVITY; NORTH AMERICAN; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; PLATE JUNCTIONS; RELATIVE DISPLACEMENT;

IGNEOUS ROCKS;

BASEMENT ROCK; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CRETACEOUS; FOREARC BASIN; IGNEOUS ROCK; ISLAND ARC; MAGMATISM; SUBDUCTION; TRENCH;

COAST RANGES; KLAMATH MOUNTAINS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84873529777     PISSN: 19418264     EISSN: 19474253     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/L247.1     Document Type: Article

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