Geology of the Inyo Mountains Volcanic Complex: Implications for Jurassic paleogeography of the Sierran magmatic arc in eastern California

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 110, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 1376-1397

  Dunne, George C ^a   Garvey, Timothy P ^a,c   Oborne, Mark ^a,d   Schneidereit, Daniel ^a,e   Fritsche, A Eugene ^a   Walker, J Douglas ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^c Groundwater Technology Inc   (United States)

^d Sierra Geoscience Inc   (United States)

^e NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINARY ALLOYS; DEPOSITION; FLOODS; LEAD ALLOYS; STRATIGRAPHY; URANIUM ALLOYS; VOLCANOES;

ALLUVIAL FANS; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; EASTERN CALIFORNIA; MAGMATIC ARCS; MOJAVE DESERT; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; STRATIGRAPHIC INTERVALS; VOLCANIC COMPLEX;

VOLCANIC ROCKS;

ISLAND ARC; JURASSIC; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; VOLCANIC ROCK;

CALIFORNIA; INYO MOUNTAINS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84879886245     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0016-7606(1998)110<1376:GOTIMV>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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