Thermochronology of Cretaceous batholithic rocks in the northern Peninsular Ranges batholith, southern California: Implications for the Late Cretaceous tectonic evolution of southern California

Memoir of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 211, Issue , 2014, Pages 199-261

  Miggins, Daniel P ^a,e   Premo, Wayne R ^a   Snee, Lawrence W ^b   Yeoman, Ross ^a   Naeser, Nancy D ^c   Naeser, Charles W ^c   Morton, Douglas M ^d  

^a DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Global Gems and Geology   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APATITE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CORE DRILLING; FELDSPAR; GEOCHRONOLOGY; ISOTOPES; LEAD; MICA; ROCKS; SILICATES; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONICS;

APATITE FISSION TRACKS; CLOSURE TEMPERATURES; ISOTOPIC ZONATION; METASEDIMENTARY ROCKS; PENINSULAR RANGES BATHOLITH; SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

METAMORPHIC ROCKS;

ALKALI FELDSPAR; BATHOLITH; CONTINENTAL ARC; CRETACEOUS; EMPLACEMENT; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; MAGMATISM; METAMORPHIC ROCK; METASEDIMENTARY ROCK; MYLONITE; PLUTONIC ROCK; PLUTONISM; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; THERMOCHRONOLOGY; UPLIFT;

CALIFORNIA; COAST RANGES; LOS ANGELES BASIN; PENINSULAR RANGES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84900558775     PISSN: 00721069     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2014.1211(06)     Document Type: Article

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