Very low-temperature metamorphism of shales from the Diablo Range, Franciscan Complex, California: New constraints on the exhumation path

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 108, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 578-601

  Dalla Torre, M ^a,c   De Capitani, C ^a   Frey, M ^a   Underwood, M B ^b   Mullis, J ^a   Cox, R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCITE; CARBONATE MINERALS; COAL; COHERENT SCATTERING; CRYSTALLINITY; FELDSPAR; MICA; MINERALOGY; QUARTZ; SHALE; TEMPERATURE; SILICATE MINERALS;

COMPOSITIONAL GRADIENTS; FLUID INCLUSION DATA; INFORMATION CONCERNING; METAMORPHIC CONDITIONS; PRESSURE AND TEMPERATURE; PRESSURE-TEMPERATURE CONDITIONS; TEMPERATURE EVOLUTION; VERY LOW TEMPERATURES; FRANCISCAN COMPLEX; HIGH PRESSURE; LOWER PRESSURES; PEAK PRESSURE; PHASE ASSEMBLAGES;

SILICATE MINERALS; SHALE;

ALBITE; ARAGONITE; BLUESCHIST; CHLORITE; COAL RANK; CRYSTALLINITY; GREENSCHIST FACIES; HIGH PRESSURE; ILLITE; INCLUSION; STABLE ISOTOPE; DIAGENESIS; EXHUMATION PATH; ILLITE CRYSTALLINITY; METAMORPHISM; P/T CONDITIONS;

CALIFORNIA; COAST RANGES; DIABLO RANGE; PACHECO PASS; UNITED STATES; FRANCISCAN COMPLEX; USA;

EID: 84874998633     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0016-7606(1996)108<0578:VLTMOS>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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