Potassium-argon cooling ages in the northern part of the Peninsular Ranges batholith and offsets on the Elsinore and San Jacinto fault zones

Memoir of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 211, Issue , 2014, Pages 181-198

  Miller, F K ^a   Morton, D M ^b   Premo, W R ^c  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COOLING; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; GRANITE; LEAD; MICA; POTASSIUM; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CONTOUR FEATURES; COOLING HISTORY; EXPOSED PARTS; GEOLOGIC MAPPING; GRANITIC ROCKS; PENINSULAR RANGES BATHOLITH; U-PB ZIRCON AGES; VERTICAL COMPONENT;

STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS;

BATHOLITH; BIOTITE; EMPLACEMENT; FAULT ZONE; GEOLOGICAL MAPPING; GRANITE; OUTCROP; POTASSIUM-ARGON DATING; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

CALIFORNIA; COAST RANGES; ELSINORE FAULT ZONE; PENINSULAR RANGES; SAN JACINTO FAULT ZONE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84900544142     PISSN: 00721069     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2014.1211(05)     Document Type: Article

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