Tectonic implications of rapid cooling of lower plate rocks from the Buckskin-Rawhide metamorphic core complex, west-central Arizona

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 110, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 588-614

  Scott, Robert J ^a,d   Foster, David A ^b,c   Lister, Gordon S ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EROSION; FAULTING; FISSION REACTIONS;

BRITTLE DUCTILE TRANSITIONS; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; GEOTHERMAL GRADIENTS; HYDROTHERMAL MINERALIZATION; INTERACTION WITH FLUID; METAMORPHIC CORE COMPLEX; MODERATE TEMPERATURE; TECTONIC IMPLICATIONS;

METAMORPHIC ROCKS;

CAINOZOIC; COOLING; METAMORPHIC CORE COMPLEX; MYLONITE; TECTONICS;

ARIZONA; USA;

EID: 84879884528     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0016-7606(1998)110<0588:TIORCO>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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