A tale of 10 plutons - Revisited: Age of granitic rocks in the White Mountains, California and Nevada
Geological Society of America Bulletin
By: E.H. McKee and J. E. Conrad
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Abstract
40Ar/39Ar incremental heating analysis and conventional K-Ar age determinations on plutonic rocks of the White Mountains define two stages of magmatic emplacement: Late Cretaceous, between ca. 90 Ma and 75 Ma, and Middle-Late Jurassic, between ca. 180 and 140 Ma. The Jurassic stage can be divided into two substages, 180-165 Ma and 150-140 Ma. Thermal effects of the younger plutons on the older granitoids partially to completely reset ages, making it difficult to determine the age of emplacement and cooling of several of the plutons even by 40Ar/39Ar incremental heating analyses. New data together with published ages and regional geochronological synthesis of the Sierra Nevada batholith indicate that regions within the batholith have coherent periods or episodes of magmatic activity. In the White Mountains and Sierra Nevada directly to the west there was little or no activity in Early Jurassic and Early Cretaceous time; magmatism took place during relatively short intervals of 15 m.y. or less in the Middle and Late Jurassic and Late Cretaceous periods. The new K-Ar and 40Ar/39Ar analyses of granitoids from the White Mountains help, but do not completely clarify the complex history of emplacement, cooling, and reheating of the batholith.
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McKee, E., Conrad, J., 1996, A tale of 10 plutons - Revisited: Age of granitic rocks in the White Mountains, California and Nevada: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 108, no. 12, p. 1515-1527, https://doi.org/10.1130/0016-7606(1997)109<1631:ATOPRA>2.3.CO;2.
| Publication type | Article |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | Journal Article |
| Title | A tale of 10 plutons - Revisited: Age of granitic rocks in the White Mountains, California and Nevada |
| Series title | Geological Society of America Bulletin |
| DOI | 10.1130/0016-7606(1997)109<1631:ATOPRA>2.3.CO;2 |
| Volume | 108 |
| Issue | 12 |
| Year Published | 1996 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Geological Society of America |
| Description | 13 p. |
| First page | 1515 |
| Last page | 1527 |
| Country | United States |
| State | California, Nevada |