U-Pb geochronology of detrital zircons from the Snow Lake pendant, central Sierra Nevada - implications for Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous dextral strike-slip faulting

Geology

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 307-310

  Grasse, Scott W ^a   Gehrels, George E ^a   Lahren, Mary M ^a   Schweickert, Richard A ^a   Barth, Andrew P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Cordillera; Miogeocline; Sierra Nevada; U Pb geochronology; Zircon

Indexed keywords

SNOW LAKE PENDANT;

MARBLE; ROCKS; SNOW; ZIRCON;

GEOCHRONOLOGY;

CRETACEOUS; FAULTING; GEOCHRONOLOGY; JURASSIC; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; URANIUM SERIES DATING; ZIRCON;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84879882461     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(2001)029<0307:UPGODZ>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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