SHRIMP-RG U-Pb ages of provenance and metamorphism from detrital zircon populations and Pb-Sr-Nd signatures of prebatholithic metasedimentary rocks at Searl Ridge, northern Peninsular Ranges batholith, southern California: Implications for their age, origin, and tectonic setting

Memoir of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 211, Issue , 2014, Pages 449-498

  Premo, Wayne R ^a   Morton, Douglas M ^b  

^a DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GRANITE; ISOTOPES; LEVEES; PHOSPHATE MINERALS; ROCKS; SEDIMENTS; SHELLFISH; ZIRCON;

FUNDAMENTAL STRUCTURES; IONIZATION MASS SPECTROMETRY; METASEDIMENTARY ROCKS; MINERALOGICAL CHANGES; PENINSULAR RANGES BATHOLITH; SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA; STRUCTURAL DISCONTINUITY; UPB ZIRCON AGE (SHRIMP);

LEAD;

BATHOLITH; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CRETACEOUS; DETRITAL DEPOSIT; LEAD ISOTOPE; METAMORPHISM; METASEDIMENTARY ROCK; NEODYMIUM ISOTOPE; PERMIAN; PROVENANCE; SHRIMP DATING; STRONTIUM ISOTOPE; TECTONIC SETTING; TRIASSIC; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

CALIFORNIA; COAST RANGES; PENINSULAR RANGES; UNITED STATES;

DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA);

EID: 84900544503     PISSN: 00721069     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2014.1211(14)     Document Type: Article

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