| Description |
vi, 572 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 28 cm |
| Series |
Geological Society of America, special paper ; 438 |
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Special papers (Geological Society of America) ; 438
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| Contents |
California coast range ophiolite / Clifford A. Hopson ... [et al.] -- New high-precision CA-TIMS U-PB zircon plateau ages for the Point Sal (PS/CRO) and San Simeon (SS/CRO) ophiolite remnants, California coast ranges / James M. Mattinson and Clifford A. Hopson -- Tonalite, trondhjemite, and quartz diorite plutons of the Elder Creek ophiolite, California / John W. Shervais -- The Ingalls ophiolite complex, Central Cascades, Washington / James H. Macdonald Jr ... [et al.] -- Geochemistry and geology of the Iron Mountain unit, Ingalls ophiolite complex -- Washington / James H. Macdonald Jr. ... [et al.] -- Late jurassic age of oceanic basement at La Desirade Island, Lesser Antilles Arc / James M. Mattinson ... [et al.] -- Is there really an ophiolite conundrum? / Rodney V. Metcalf and John W. Shervais -- Non-Laurentian cratonal provenance of late Ordovician eastern Klamath blueschists and a link to the Alexander Terrane / Marty Grove ... [et al.] -- Lower mesozoic sedimentary and volcanic rocks of the Yerington region, Nevada, and their regional context / John M. Proffett and John H. Dilles -- North Fork Terrane, Klamath mountains, California / Hannah Scherer and W.G. Ernst -- Detrital zircon constraints on sediment distribution and provenance of the Mariposa / Cameron A. Snow and W.G. Ernst -- The ancestral Cascades arc -- Cathy J. Busby ... [et al.] -- Late jurassic plutonism in the southwest U.S. Cordillera / Andrew P. Barth ... [et al.] -- Chronology of pluton emplacement and regional deformation in the southern Sierra Nevada Batholith, California / Jason B. Saleeby... [et al.] -- Disruption of regional primary structure of Sierra Nevada Batholith by the Kern Canyon fault system -- E.S. Nadin and Jason B. Saleeby -- Chemical variability and composite nature of dikes from the Jurassic Independence Dike Swarm, eastern California -- Allen F. Glazner... [et al.] -- Dike orientations in the late Jurassic Independence Dike Swarm and implications for vertical axis tectonic rotations in eastern California / R. Forrest Hopson, John W. Hillhouse, and Keith A. Howard -- Spatial and temporal variations in Nd isotopic signatures across the crystalline core of the North Cascades, Washington / Jennifer E.P. Matzel, Samuel A. Bowring, and Robert B. Miller -- Wall rocks as recorders of multiple pluton emplacement mechanisms-examples from Cretaceous intrusions of northwest Nevada / Veronica Ciavarella and Sandra J. Wylde -- A mantle plume beneath California? -- Noah j. garrison ... [et al.] |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Ophiolites.
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Batholiths.
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Geology.
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| Author |
Wright, James E. (James Earl), 1949-
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Shervais, John W., 1948-
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| LC no. |
2007042826 |
| ISBN |
9780813724386 paperback |
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