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Vishnu basement rocks of the Upper Granite Gorge; continent formation 1.84 to 1.66 billion years ago
Karl E. Karlstrom, Bradley R. Ilg, David Hawkins, Michael L. Williams, Gregory Dumond, Kevin Mahan and Samuel A. Bowring
Vishnu basement rocks of the Upper Granite Gorge; continent formation 1.84 to 1.66 billion years ago (in Grand Canyon geology; two billion years of Earth's history, J. Michael Timmons (editor) and Karl E. Karlstrom (editor))
Special Paper - Geological Society of America (2012) 489: 7-24
Vishnu basement rocks of the Upper Granite Gorge; continent formation 1.84 to 1.66 billion years ago (in Grand Canyon geology; two billion years of Earth's history, J. Michael Timmons (editor) and Karl E. Karlstrom (editor))
Special Paper - Geological Society of America (2012) 489: 7-24
Index Terms/Descriptors
- absolute age
- basement
- continental crust
- continental lithosphere
- crust
- deformation
- dikes
- folds
- foliation
- Grand Canyon
- granites
- igneous rocks
- intrusions
- lithofacies
- lithosphere
- metamorphic rocks
- monazite
- North America
- oceanic crust
- paleogeography
- Paleoproterozoic
- phosphates
- plate collision
- plate tectonics
- plutonic rocks
- Precambrian
- Proterozoic
- Rocky Mountains
- schists
- Southwestern U.S.
- subduction
- U. S. Rocky Mountains
- U/Pb
- United States
- upper Precambrian
- Vishnu Schist
- Upper Granite Gorge
- Granite Gorges
Latitude & Longitude
ISSN: 0072-1077
EISSN: 2331-219X
Coden: GSAPAZ
Serial Title: Special Paper - Geological Society of America
Serial Volume: 489
Title: Vishnu basement rocks of the Upper Granite Gorge; continent formation 1.84 to 1.66 billion years ago
Title: Grand Canyon geology; two billion years of Earth's history
Author(s): Karlstrom, Karl E.Ilg, Bradley R.Hawkins, DavidWilliams, Michael L.Dumond, GregoryMahan, KevinBowring, Samuel A.
Author(s): Timmons, J. Michaeleditor
Author(s): Karlstrom, Karl E.editor
Affiliation: University of New Mexico, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences,
Albuquerque, NM,
United States
Affiliation: New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources,
Socorro, NM,
United States
Pages: 7-24
Published: 2012
Text Language: English
Publisher: Geological Society of America (GSA),
Boulder, CO,
United States
ISBN: 978-0-8137-2489-8
Accession Number: 2013-020978
Categories: Solid-earth geophysicsIgneous and metamorphic petrology
Document Type: Serial
Bibliographic Level: Analytic
Illustration Description: illus. incl. 1 table, block diags., geol. sketch maps
N35°30'00" - N36°30'00", W113°30'00" - W112°00'00"
Secondary Affiliation: University of New Mexico,
USA,
United StatesNew Zealand Petroleum & Minerals,
NZL,
New ZealandWellesley College,
USA,
United StatesUniversity of Massachusetts, Amherst,
USA,
United StatesUniversity of Arkansas, Fayetteville,
USA,
United StatesUniversity of Colorado-Boulder,
USA,
United StatesMassachusetts Institute of Technology,
USA,
United States
Country of Publication: United States
Secondary Affiliation: GeoRef, Copyright 2017, American Geosciences Institute. Reference includes data supplied by the Geological Society of America, Boulder, CO, United States
Update Code: 201314
