Petrologically diverse basalts from a fossil oceanic forearc in California: the Llanada and Black Mountain remnants of the Coast Range ophiolite

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 110, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 553-571

  Giaramita, Mario ^a,c   MacPherson, Glenn J ^a   Phipps, Stephen Paul ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IRON COMPOUNDS; LANDFORMS; MAGNESITE; RARE EARTHS; SILICA; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

COAST RANGE OPHIOLITES; ISLAND-ARC THOLEIITE; LIGHT RARE EARTH ELEMENTS; MID-OCEANIC-RIDGE BASALTS; OCEAN ISLAND BASALTS; SILICEOUS ROCKS; SUBDUCTION ZONES; SUPRASUBDUCTION ZONE;

BASALT;

BASALT; MORB; OCEANIC FOREARC; OIB; OPHIOLITE;

CALIFORNIA; COAST RANGE; USA;

EID: 84879879783     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0016-7606(1998)110<0553:PDBFAF>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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