Timing and significance of gabbro emplacement within two distinct plutonic domains of the Peninsular Ranges batholith, southern and Baja California

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 127, Issue 1-2, 2015, Pages 19-37

  Kimbrough, David L ^a   Grove, Marty ^b   Morton, Douglas M ^c  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINA; ALUMINUM OXIDE; BINARY ALLOYS; IGNEOUS ROCKS; LASER ABLATION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MELTING; OLIVINE; RARE EARTHS; SILICATE MINERALS; TECTONICS; TIMING CIRCUITS; TRACE ELEMENTS; ZIRCON;

ACCRETIONARY COMPLEX; COMPOSITIONAL SPECTRA; CRYSTALLIZATION AGE; FRACTIONAL CRYSTALLIZATION; LASER ABLATION INDUCTIVELY-COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRIES; MAJOR AND TRACE ELEMENTS; PENINSULAR RANGES BATHOLITH; URANIUM CONCENTRATION;

LEAD ALLOYS;

BATHOLITH; EMPLACEMENT; GABBRO; GRANITOID; MAGMATISM; MANTLE SOURCE; PLUTON; ZIRCON;

BAJA CALIFORNIA [(PNN) MEXICO]; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA];

EID: 84920431883     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 19432674     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B30914.1     Document Type: Article

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