Contrasting proterozoic basement complexes near the truncated margin of Laurentia, northwestern Sonora-Arizona international border region

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 393, Issue , 2005, Pages 123-182

  Nourse, Jonathan A ^a,e   Premo, Wayne R ^c   Iriondo, Alexander ^b,c   Stahl, Erin R ^d  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

^d Campus Juriquilla ^*  (United States)

^e CENTRO DE GEOCIENCIAS   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Proterozoic; Rodinia; Shrimp; Sonora; Zircon

Indexed keywords

BINARY ALLOYS; BIOTITE; BUILDINGS; DEFORMATION; GRANITE; ISOTOPES; LEAD ALLOYS; LEVEES; MASS SPECTROMETERS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MICA; NEODYMIUM ALLOYS; RUBIDIUM ALLOYS; SAMARIUM ALLOYS; SHELLFISH; SILICATE MINERALS; STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS; STRONTIUM ALLOYS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TERNARY ALLOYS; TEXTURES; THORIUM ALLOYS; TRANSFORM FAULTS; ZIRCON;

AMPHIBOLITE-FACIES METAMORPHISM; ISOTOPIC CHARACTERISTICS; PROTEROZOIC; RODINIA; SENSITIVE HIGH-RESOLUTION ION MICROPROBE; SHRIMP; SONORA; THERMAL IONIZATION MASS SPECTROMETRY;

GALLIUM;

AMPHIBOLITE FACIES; AUGEN GNEISS; BASEMENT ROCK; BATHOLITH; BIOTITE; BORDER REGION; DEFORMATION; FOLIATION; GEOLOGICAL MAPPING; HOST ROCK; LAURENTIA; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METAVOLCANIC ROCK; OROGENIC BELT; ORTHOGNEISS; PERMIAN; PLUTON; PROTEROZOIC; REGIONAL METAMORPHISM; RODINIA; RUBIDIUM-STRONTIUM DATING; SAN ANDREAS FAULT; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

ARIZONA; CALIFORNIA; MAZATZAL MOUNTAINS; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; MOJAVE DESERT; SAN ANDREAS; SONORA; UNITED STATES; YUMA;

DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); YUMA;

EID: 84874954463     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2393-0.123     Document Type: Article

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