Paleozoic subduction complex and Paleozoic-Mesozoic island-arc volcano-plutonic assemblages in the northern Sierra terrane

GSA Field Guides

Volumn 2, Issue , 2000, Pages 255-278

  Hanson, Richard E ^a   Girty, Gary H ^b   Harwood, David S ^c   Schweickert, Richard A ^d  

^a TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STRATIGRAPHY; TECTONICS;

CONVERGENT MARGIN; ISLAND-ARC VOLCANO; MIDDLE JURASSIC; PALEOZOIC-MESOZOIC; PLUTONIC ROCKS; SIERRA NEVADA BATHOLITH; STRUCTURAL EVOLUTION; TECTONIC PROCESS;

VOLCANOES;

EID: 84983724765     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-0002-7.255     Document Type: Article

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