Ophiolites, Arcs, and Batholiths: A Tribute to Cliff Hopson

California Coast Range ophiolite: Composite Middle and Late Jurassic oceanic lithosphere
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Published:July 01, 2008
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Clifford A Hopson, James M Mattinson, Emile A Pessagno, Jr., Bruce P Luyendyk, 2008. "California Coast Range ophiolite: Composite Middle and Late Jurassic oceanic lithosphere", Ophiolites, Arcs, and Batholiths: A Tribute to Cliff Hopson, James E. Wright, John W. Shervais
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The composite California Coast Range ophiolite consists of remnants of Middle Jurassic oceanic lithosphere, a Late Jurassic deep-sea volcanopelagic sediment cover, and Late Jurassic intrusive sheets that invade the ophiolite and volcano-pelagic succession. The dismembered Middle Jurassic Coast Range ophiolite remnants (161–168 Ma) were parts of the axial sequence of an oceanic spreading center that consisted of basaltic submarine lava, subvolcanic intrusive sheets, and gabbro, and coeval but off-axis upper lava, dunite-wehrlite mantle transition zone, peridotite restite, and dikes rooted in the mantle transition zone that fed the upper lava. Hydrothermal metamorphism overprints the lavas, subvolcanic sheets, and part of...
- basalts
- California
- chemical composition
- Coast Range Ophiolite
- Coast Ranges
- crust
- deformation
- dikes
- dunite
- geochemistry
- hydrothermal alteration
- igneous rocks
- intrusions
- Jurassic
- lithosphere
- lithostratigraphy
- magmatism
- melange
- Mesozoic
- metaigneous rocks
- metamorphic rocks
- metamorphism
- metasomatic rocks
- metasomatism
- mid-ocean ridge basalts
- mineral composition
- oceanic crust
- oceanic lithosphere
- ophiolite
- ophiolite complexes
- paleogeography
- paleolatitude
- paleomagnetism
- peridotites
- petrology
- plate tectonics
- plutonic rocks
- Point Sal
- rifting
- Santa Barbara County California
- sea-floor spreading
- sedimentary rocks
- serpentinite
- sheeted dikes
- subduction
- subduction zones
- tectonics
- trace elements
- ultramafics
- United States
- volcanic rocks
- volcaniclastics
- volcanism
- Great Valley Group
- Llanada California
- Tehama-Colusa Melange
- Berryessa Complex