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Zircon petrochronology of Cretaceous Cordilleran interior granites of the Snake Range and Kern Mountains, Nevada, USA

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Eric S. Gottlieb

Eric S. Gottlieb

Geological Sciences, Stanford University, 450 Serra Mall, Building 320, Stanford, California 94305, USA, and Kaiser-Francis Oil Company, 6733 South Yale Avenue, Tulsa, Oklahoma 74136, USA

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Elizabeth L. Miller

Elizabeth L. Miller

Geological Sciences, Stanford University, 450 Serra Mall, Building 320, Stanford, California 94305, USA

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John W. Valley

The WiscSIMS Laboratory, Department of Geoscience, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Weeks Hall, 1215 West Dayton Street, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA

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Christopher M. Fisher

Christopher M. Fisher

Radiogenic Isotope and Geochronology Laboratory, School of the Environment, Washington State University, 100 Dairy Road, Pullman, Washington 99164, USA, and School of Earth Sciences, The University of Western Australia (M004), 35 Stirling Highway, Perth, WA 6009, Australia

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Jeffrey D. Vervoort

Jeffrey D. Vervoort

Radiogenic Isotope and Geochronology Laboratory, School of the Environment, Washington State University, 100 Dairy Road, Pullman, Washington 99164, USA

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Kouki Kitajima

The WiscSIMS Laboratory, Department of Geoscience, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Weeks Hall, 1215 West Dayton Street, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA

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Doi:

https://doi.org/10.1130/2022.2555(02)

Published:

May 03, 2022

ABSTRACT

We addressed fundamental questions about the lithology, age, structure, and thermal evolution of the deep crust of the retroarc hinterland of the North American Cordilleran orogen through systematic investigation of zircons from Cretaceous plutons in the Snake Range and Kern Mountains of east-central Nevada. Geochronological (U-Pb) and geochemical (trace element, O and Hf isotopes) characterization of pre- and synmagmatic growth domains of zircons, coupled with traditional petrologic methods (petrography, field relationships, and whole-rock major-element, trace-element, and Sr-Nd and Pb isotope geochemistry), fingerprinted temporal variations in crustal contributions to magmatism. The samples are typical felsic, peraluminous Cordilleran interior granitoids that...

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Tectonic Evolution of the Sevier-Laramide Hinterland, Thrust Belt, and Foreland, and Postorogenic Slab Rollback (180–20 Ma)

GSA Special Papers

Tectonic Evolution of the Sevier-Laramide Hinterland, Thrust Belt, and Foreland, and Postorogenic Slab Rollback (180–20 Ma)
CONTAINS OPEN ACCESS

Editor(s)

Geological Society of America

Volume

555

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1130/SPE555

Copyright:

© The Authors

Open Access. Gold Open Access: This chapter is published under the terms of the CC-BY license.

ISBN electronic:

9780813795553

ISBN print:

9780813725550

Publication date:

May 03, 2022

This Special Paper focuses on the evolution of the crust of the hinterland of the orogen during the orogenic cycle, and describes the evolution of the crust and basins at metamorphic core complexes. The volume includes a regional study of the Sevier-Laramide orogens in the Wyoming province, a regional seismic study, strain analysis of Sevier and Laramide deformation, and detrital zircon provenance from the Pacific Coast to the foreland between the Jurassic and the Eocene.