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Pleistocene high-silica rhyolites of the Coso volcanic field, Inyo County, California Pleistocene high-silica rhyolites of the Coso volcanic field, Inyo County, California

The high-silica rhyolite domes and lava flows of the bimodal Pleistocene part of the Coso volcanic field provide an example of the early stages of evolution of a silicic magmatic system of substantial size and longevity. Major and trace element compositions are consistent with derivation from somewhat less silicic parental material by liquid state differentiation processes in...
Authors
C. R. Bacon, R. Macdonald, R. L. Smith, P. A. Baedecker

Guides to some volcanic terranes in Washington, Idaho, Oregon, and Northern California Guides to some volcanic terranes in Washington, Idaho, Oregon, and Northern California

This guidebook arose out of a series of field trips held in conjunction with the Pacific Northwest American Geophysical Union meeting held in Bend, Oregon, September 1979. The PNAGU meeting included special volcanology sessions planned by William I. Rose, Jr., Bruce A. Nolf, amd David A. Johnston. Publication of the guidebook volume was originally planned for early 1980 by the Oregon...
Authors
David A. Johnston, Julie M. Donnelly-Nolan

Aeromagnetic map of the Mt. St. Helens area, Washington Aeromagnetic map of the Mt. St. Helens area, Washington

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Water Resources Division U.S. Geological Survey

Potassium-argon ages from the Mount Taylor Volcanic Field, New Mexico Potassium-argon ages from the Mount Taylor Volcanic Field, New Mexico

Fourteen new K-Ar dates for volcanic rocks of the Mount Taylor field, New Mexico, indicate that most activity occurred between 4.3 and 1.5 m.y. (million years) ago. Peak activity was at about 3.0-2.5 m.y., both on the central andesite-rhyolite shield volcano and on the surrounding alkali basalt-trachyte volcanic plateau, and occurred concurrently with an episode of NNE-trending basin...
Authors
Peter W. Lipman, Harald H. Mehnert

Late Cenozoic volcanism, geochronology, and structure of the Coso Range, Inyo County, California Late Cenozoic volcanism, geochronology, and structure of the Coso Range, Inyo County, California

The Coso Range lies at the west edge of the Great Basin, adjacent to the southern part of the Sierra Nevada. A basement complex of pre‐Cenozoic plutonic and metamorphic rocks is partly buried by ∼35 km3 of late Cenozoic volcanic rocks that were erupted during two periods, as defined by K‐Ar dating: (1) 4.0–2.5 m.y., ∼31 km3 of basalt, rhyodacite, dacite, andesite, and rhyolite, in...
Authors
Wendell A. Duffield, Charles R. Bacon, G. Brent Dalrymple

Geological and geophysical investigations and mineral resources potential of the proposed Great Rift Wilderness Area, Idaho Geological and geophysical investigations and mineral resources potential of the proposed Great Rift Wilderness Area, Idaho

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Mel A. Kuntz, Richard H. Lefebvre, Duane E. Champion, Lisa A. McBroome, Don R. Mabey, W. D. Stanley, H. R. Covington, James Ridenour, Ronald B. Stotelmeyer
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