Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Magma accumulation rates and thermal histories of plutons of the Sierra Nevada batholith, CA

  • Original Paper
  • Published:
Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Abstract

Zircon U–Pb geochronology results indicate that the John Muir Intrusive Suite of the central Sierra Nevada batholith, California, was assembled over a period of at least 12 Ma between 96 and 84 Ma. Bulk mineral thermochronology (U–Pb zircon and titanite, 40Ar/39Ar hornblende and biotite) of rocks from multiple plutons comprising the Muir suite indicates rapid cooling through titanite and hornblende closure following intrusion and subsequent slow cooling through biotite closure. Assembly of intrusive suites in the Sierra Nevada and elsewhere over millions of years favors growth by incremental intrusion. Estimated long-term pluton assembly rates for the John Muir Intrusive Suite are on the order of 0.001 km3 a−1 which is inconsistent with the rapid magma fluxes that are necessary to form large-volume magma chambers capable of producing caldera-forming eruptions. If large shallow crustal magma chambers do not typically develop during assembly of large zoned intrusive suites, it is doubtful that the intrusive suites represent cumulates left behind following caldera-forming eruptions.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Fig. 1
Fig. 2
Fig. 3
Fig. 4
Fig. 5
Fig. 6
Fig. 7
Fig. 8

Similar content being viewed by others

References

  • Ague JJ, Brimhall GH (1988) Magmatic arc asymmetry and distribution of anomalous plutonic belts in the batholiths of California: effects of assimilation, crustal thickness, and depth of crystallization. Geol Soc Am Bull 100:912–927

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Annen C (2007) The growth of magma bodies by amalgamation of discrete sheet intrusions: Implications for the formation of magma chambers. Eos Trans AGU (program and abstracts)

  • Annen C (2009) From plutons to magma chambers: thermal constraints on the accumulation of eruptible silicic magma in the upper crust. Earth Planet Sci Lett 284:409–416

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Annen C, Scaillet B, Sparks RSJ (2006) Thermal constraints of the emplacement rate of a large intrusive complex: the Manaslu Leucogranite, Nepal Himalaya. J Petrol 47:71–95

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Bachmann O, Miller CF, de Silva SL (2007) The volcanic-plutonic connection as a stage for understanding crustal magmatism. J Volcanol Geotherm Res 167:1–23

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Bartley JM, Coleman DS, Glazner AF (2008) Incremental emplacement of granitic plutons by magmatic crack-seal. In: Petford N, Sparks S (eds) Plutons and Batholiths (Wallace Pitcher Memorial Issue). Trans R Soc Edinb Earth Sci 97:383–396

  • Barton MD, Hanson RB (1989) Magmatism and the development of low-pressure metamorphic belts: Implications from the western United States and thermal modeling. Geol Soc Am Bull 101:1051–1065

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Bateman PC (1965) Geologic map of the blackcap mountain quadrangle, Fresno County, California. US Geol Surv Rep GQ-0529

  • Bateman PC (1992) Plutonism in the central part of the Sierra Nevada batholith, California. US Geol Surv Prof Pap 1483

  • Bateman PC, Dodge FCW (1970) Variations of major chemical constituents across the central Sierra Nevada batholith. Geol Soc Am Bull 81:409–420

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Bateman PC, Moore JG (1965) Geologic map of the mount Goddard quadrangle, Fresno and Inyo counties, California. US Geol Surv Rep GQ-0429

  • Bateman PC, Carman MF, Clark LC, Jackson ED, Parker RL (1964) Geologic Map of the Big Pine 15-minute quadrangle, California

  • Bateman PC, Pakiser LC, Kane MF (1965) Geology and tungsten mineralization of the Bishop District California. US Geol Surv Prof Pap 470

  • Berger GW (1975) 40Ar/39Ar step heating of thermally overprinted biotite, hornblende and potassium feldspar from Eldora, Colorado. Earth Planet Sci Lett 26:387–408

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Boudreau A, McBirney AR (1997) The Skaergaard layered series; part III, non-dynamic layering. J Pet 38:1003–1020

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Chen JH, Moore JG (1982) Uranium-lead isotopic ages from the Sierra Nevada batholith, California. J Geophys Res 87B:4761–4784

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Chu R, Helmberger DV, Sun D, Jackson JM, Zhu L (2010) Mushy magma beneath Yellowstone. Geophys Res Lett 37: LO1306

  • Coleman DS, Glazner AF (1998) The Sierra Crest magmatic event; rapid formation of juvenile crust during the Late Cretaceous in California. In: Ernst WG, Nelson CA (eds) Integrated earth and environmental evolution of the Southwestern United States; the Clarence A. Hall Jr. volume. Bellwether Publishing, USA, pp 253–272

    Google Scholar 

  • Coleman DS, Glazner AF, Miller JS, Bradford KJ, Frost TP, Joye JL, Bachl CA (1995) Exposure of a Late Cretaceous layered mafic-felsic magma system in the central Sierra Nevada batholith, California. Contrib Mineral Petrol 120:129–136

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Coleman DS, Gray W, Glazner AF (2004) Rethinking the emplacement and evolution of zoned plutons: Geochronologic evidence for incremental assembly of the Tuolumne Intrusive Suite, California. Geology 32:433–436

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Costa F (2008) Residence times of silicic magmas associated with calderas. In: Gottsmann J, Martí J (eds) Developments in Volcanology 10. Caldera Volcanism: analysis, modeling, and response. Elsevier, pp 1–55

  • Crowley JL, Schoene B, Bowring SA (2007) U-Pb dating of zircon in the Bishop Tuff at the millennial scale. Geology 35:1123–1126

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Davis JW (2010) Thermochronology and cooling histories of plutons: implications for incremental pluton assembly. PhD Dissertation, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  • de Silva SL, Gosnold WD (2007) Episodic construction of batholiths: insights from the spatiotemporal development of an ignimbrite flare-up. J Volcanol Geotherm Res 167:320–335

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Dodson MH (1973) Closure temperature in cooling geochronological and petrological systems. Contrib Mineral Petrol 40:259–274

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Frost TP, Mahood GA (1987) Field, chemical, and physical constraints on mafic-felsic magma interaction in the Lamarck Granodiorite, Sierra Nevada, California. Geol Soc Am Bull 99:272–291

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Frost TP, Mattinson JM (1988) Late Cretaceous U-Pb age of a mafic intrusion from the eastern Sierra Nevada, California. Isochron West 51:15–18

    Google Scholar 

  • Frost TP, Mattinson JM (1993) Age and tectonic implications of mid-Mesozoic calc-alkalic hornblende-rich mafic plutonic rocks of the eastern Sierra Nevada, California. Isochron West 59:11–16

    Google Scholar 

  • Gaschnig RM (2005) Cause, timing, and significance of brittle deformation in Little Lakes Valley, eastern Sierra Nevada, California. MS Thesis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  • Glazner AF, Bartley JM, Coleman DS, Gray W, Taylor RZ (2004) Are plutons assembled over millions of years by amalgamation from small magma chambers? Geol Soc Am Today 14:4–11

    Google Scholar 

  • Gracely JT (2006) Rapid pluton emplacement via multiple discrete processes, Lamarck Granodiorite, Central Sierra Nevada, California. MS Thesis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  • Grunder AL, Klemetti EW, Feeley TC, Cm McKee (2008) Eleven million years of arc volcanism at the Aucanquilcha Volcanic Cluster, northern Chilean Andes: implications for the life span and emplacement of plutons. Trans R Soc Edinb Earth Sci 97:415–436

    Google Scholar 

  • Hanson RB, Barton MD (1989) Thermal development of low-pressure metamorphic belts: results from two-dimensional numerical models. J Geophys Res 94:10363–10377

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Harrison TM (1981) Diffusion of 40Ar in hornblende. Contrib Mineral Petrol 78:324–331

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Harrison TM, Duncan I, McDougall I (1985) Diffusion of 40Ar in biotite: temperature, pressure, and compositional effects. Geochim Cosmochim Acta 49:2461–2468

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Hathaway M (2002) Geology of the inconsolable range, east-central Sierra Nevada, kings Canyon National Park and John Muir Wilderness, California; magmatic emplacement and the dynamic evolution of composite intrusions. PhD Dissertation, University of California at Los Angeles

  • Heizler MT, Lux DR, Decker ER (1988) The age and cooling history of the Chain of Ponds and Big Island Pond plutons and the Spider Lake Granite, west-central Maine and Quebec. Am J Sci 288:925–952

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Hildreth W (2004) Volcanological perspectives on long Valley, Mammoth Mountain, and Mono Craters: several contiguous but discrete systems. J Volcanol Geotherm Res 136:169–198

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Hirt WH (2007) Petrology of the Mount Whitney Intrusive Suite, eastern Sierra Nevada, California: implications for the emplacement and differentiation of the composite felsic intrusion. Geol Soc Am Bull 119:1185–1200

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Iyer HM (1984) Geophysical evidence for the locations, shapes and sizes, and internal structures of magma chambers beneath regions of quaternary volcanism. Philo Trans R Soc Lond Math Phys Sci 310:473–510

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Jaffey AH, Flynn KF, Glendenin LE, Bentley WC, Essling AM (1971) Precision measurement of half-lives and specific activities of 235U and 238U. Phys Rev C4:1889–1906

    Google Scholar 

  • Jellinek AM, DePaolo DJ (2003) A model for the origin of large silicic magma chambers: precursors of caldera-forming eruptions. Bull Volcanol 65:363–381

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Kistler RW (1990) Two different lithosphere types in the Sierra Nevada, California. In: Anderson JL (ed) The nature and origin of Cordilleran magmatism. Geol Soc Am Mem 174:271–281

  • Kistler RW, Chappell BW, Peck BL, Bateman PC (1986) Isotopic variation in the Tuolumne intrusive suite, central Sierra Nevada, California. Contrib Mineral Petrol 94:205–220

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Krogh TE (1973) A low-contamination method for hydrothermal decomposition of zircon and extraction of U and Pb for isotopic age determinations. Geochim Cosmochim Acta 37:485–494

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Lipman PW (2007) Incremental assembly and prolonged consolidation of Cordilleran magma chambers: evidence from the Southern Rocky Mountain volcanic field. Geosphere 3:42–70

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Lo C, Onstott TC (1989) 39Ar recoil artifacts in chloritized biotite. Geochim Cosmochim Acta 53:2697–2711

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Lockwood JP, Lydon PA (1975) Geologic map of the Mount Abbot quadrangle, central Sierra Nevada, California. US Geol Sur Rep GQ-1155

  • Ludwig KR (1980) Calculation of uncertainties of U-Pb isotope data. Earth Planet Sci Lett 46:212–220

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Ludwig KR (1998) On the treatment of concordant uranium-lead ages. Geochim Cosmochim Acta 62:665–676

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Ludwig KR (2003) Isoplot 3.00; A geochronological toolkit for Microsoft Excel. Berkley Geochronology Center Spec Pub 4

  • Mahan KH, Bartley JM, Coleman DS, Glazner AF, Carl BS (2003) Sheeted intrusion of the synkinematic McDoogle pluton, Sierra Nevada, California. Geol Soc Am Bull 115:1570–1582

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Masturyono, McCaffrey R, Wark DA, Roecker SW, Fauzi, Ibrahim G, Sukhyar (2001) Distribution of magma beneath the Toba caldera complex, north Sumatra, Indonesia, constrained by three-dimensional P wave velocities, seismicity, and gravity data. Geochem Geophy Geosys 2000GC000096

  • Mattinson JM (2005) Zircon U-Pb chemical abrasion (“CA-TIMS”) method: combining annealing and multi-step partial dissolution analysis for improved precision and accuracy of zircon ages. Chem Geol 220:47–66

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Matzel JEP, Bowring SA, Miller RB (2006) Time scales of pluton construction at differing crustal levels: examples from the Mount Stuart and Tenpeak intrusions, North Cascades, Washington. Geol Soc Am Bull 118:1412–1430

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • McBirney AR (1995) Mechanisms of differentiation in the Skaergaard Intrusion. J Geol Soc Lond 152:421–435

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • McBirney AR, Nicolas A (1996) The Skaergaard layered series; part II, magmatic flow and dynamic layering. J Pet 38:569–580

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • McNulty BA, Tobisch OT, Cruden AR, Gilder S (2000) Multistage emplacement of the Mount Givens pluton, central Sierra Nevada batholith, California. Geol Soc Am Bull 112:119–135

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Michel J, Baumgartner L, Putlitz B, Schaltegger U, Ovtcharova M (2008) Incremental growth of the Patagonian Torres del Paine laccolith over 90 k.y. Geology 36:459–462

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Miller JS, Wooden JL (2004) Residence, resorption, and recycling of zircons in Devils Kitchen Rhyolite, Coso Volcanic Field, California. J Petrol 45:2155–2170

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Miller WM, Fallick AE, Leake BE, Macintyre RM, Jenkin GRT (1991) Fluid disturbed hornblende K-Ar ages from the Dalradian rocks of Connemara, Western Ireland. J Geol Soc Lond 148:985–992

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Miller JS, Matzel JEP, Miller CF, Burgess SD, Miller RB (2007) Zircon growth and recycling during the assembly of large, composite arc plutons. J Volcanol Geotherm Res 167:282–299

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Moore JG (1963) Geology of the Mount Pinchot quadrangle, southern Sierra Nevada, California. US Geol Surv Bull 1130

  • Moran SC, Lees JM, Malone SD (1999) P wave crustal velocity structure in the greater Mount Rainier area from local earthquake tomography. J Geophys Res 104:10775–10786

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Mundil R, Ludwig KR, Metcalfe I, Renne PR (2004) Age and timing of the Permian mass extinctions: U/Pb dating of closed-system zircons. Science 305:1760–1763

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Parrish RP (1987) An improved micro-capsule for zircon dissolution in U-Pb geochronology. Chem Geol 66:99–102

    Google Scholar 

  • Parrish RP, Krogh TE (1987) Synthesis and purification of 205Pb for U-Pb geochronology. Chem Geol 66:103–110

    Google Scholar 

  • Pritchard ME, Simons M (2004) An InSAR-based survey of volcanic deformation in the southern Andes. Geophys Res Lett 31:1–4

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Renne PR (2006) Progress and challenges in K-Ar and 40Ar/39Ar geochronology. In: Olszewski T (ed) Geochronology: emerging opportunities. Paleont Soc Pap 12:47–66

  • Renne PR, Tobisch OT, Saleeby JB (1993) Thermochronologic record of pluton emplacement, deformation, and exhumation at Courtright shear zone, central Sierra Nevada, California. Geology 21:331–334

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Renne PR, Swisher CC, Deino AL, Karner DB, Owens TL, DePaolo DJ (1998) Intercalibration of standards, absolute ages and uncertainties in 40Ar/39Ar dating. Chem Geol 145:117–152

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Renne PR, Mundil R, Balco G, Min K, Ludwig KR (2010) Joint determination of 40K decay constants and 40Ar*/40K for the Fish Canyon sanidine standard and improved accuracy for 40Ar/39Ar geochronology. Geochim Cosmochim Acta 74:5349–5367

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Saleeby J, Kistler RW, Longiaru S, Moore JG, Nokleberg WJ (1990) Middle Cretaceous silicic metavolcanic rocks in the Kings Canyon area, central Sierra Nevada, California. In: Anderson JL (ed) The nature and origin of the Cordilleran magmatism. Geol Soc Am Mem 174:251–270

  • Saleeby J, Ducea MN, Busby C, Nadin E, Wetmore PH (2008) Chronology of pluton emplacement and regional deformation in the southern Sierra Nevada batholith, California. In: Wright JE, Shervais JW (eds) Ophiolites, Arcs, and Batholiths. Geol Soc Am Spec Pap 438:1–31

  • Sanders RE, Heizler MT, Goodwin LB (2006) 40Ar/39Ar thermochronology constraints on the timing of Proterozoic basement exhumation and fault ancestry, southern Sangre de Cristo Range, New Mexico. Geol Soc Am Bull 118:1489–1506

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Schaltegger U, Brack P, Ovtcharova M, Peytcheva I, Schoene B, Stracke A, Marocchi M, Bargossi GM (2009) Zircon and titanite recording 1.5 million years of magma accretion, crystallization and initial cooling in a composite pluton (southern Adamello batholith, northern Italy). Earth Planet Sci Lett 286:208–218

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Schmitz MD (2010) Boise state isotope geology laboratory LABSHARE. http://earth.boisestate.edu/isotope/labshare.html

  • Schmitz MD, Bowring SA (2001) U-Pb zircon and titanite systematics of the Fish Canyon Tuff: an assessment of high precision U-Pb geochronology and its application to young volcanic rocks. Geochim Cosmochim Acta 65:2571–2587

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Scott DJ, St-Onge MR (1995) Constraints on Pb closure temperature in titanite based rocks from Ungava Orogen, Canada: implications for U-Pb geochronology and P-T-t path determinations. Geology 23:1123–1126

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Simon JI, Renne PR, Mundil R (2008) Implications of pre-eruptive magmatic histories of zircons for U-Pb geochronology of silicic extrusions. Earth Planet Sci Lett 266:182–194

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Singer BS, Pringle MS (1996) Age and duration of the Matuyama-Brunhes geomagnetic polarity reversal from 40Ar/39Ar incremental heating analyses of lavas. Earth Planet Sci Lett 139:47–61

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Sisson VB, Onstott T (1986) Dating blueschist metamorphism: a combined 40Ar/39Ar and electron microprobe approach. Geochim Cosmochim Acta 50:2111–2117

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Stacey JS, Kramers JD (1975) Approximation of terrestrial lead isotope evolution by a two stage model. Earth Planet Sci Lett 26:207–221

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Stearns MA, Bartley JM (2010) Refinement of the crack-seal model: insights from the McDoogle pluton, Sierra Nevada, CA. Geol Soc Am Bull (submitted)

  • Steiger RH, Jäger E (1977) Subcommission on geochronology; convention on the use of decay constants in geo- and cosmochemistry. Earth Planet Sci Lett 36:359–362

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Stern TW, Bateman PC, Morgan BA, Newell MF, Peck DL (1981) Isotopic U-Pb ages of zircon from granitoids of the central Sierra Nevada, California. US Geol Surv Prof Pap 1185:1–17

    Google Scholar 

  • Taylor JR (1982) An introduction to error analysis: the study of uncertainties in physical measurements. University Science Books, California

    Google Scholar 

  • Tera F, Wasserburg GJ (1972) U-Th-Pb systematics in three Apollo 14 basalts and the problem of initial Pb in lunar rocks. Earth Planet Sci Lett 14:281–304

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Tikoff B, Saint Blanquat M (1997) Transpressional shearing and strike-slip partitioning in the Late Cretaceous Sierra Nevada magmatic arc, California. Tecton 16:442–459

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Tikoff B, Teyssier C (1992) Crustal-scale, en echelon “P-shear” tensional bridges: a possible solution to the batholithic room problem. Geology 20:927–930

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Tobisch OT, Saleeby JB, Renne PR, McNulty B, Tong W (1995) Variations in deformation fields during development of a large-volume magmatic arc, central Sierra Nevada, California. Geol Soc Am Bull 107:148–166

    Google Scholar 

  • Waite GP, Moran SC (2009) Vp structure of Mount St. Helens, Washington, USA, imaged with local earthquake tomography. J Volcanol Geotherm Res 182:113–122

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Walker BA, Grunder Al, Wooden JL (2010) Organization and thermal maturation of long-lived arc systems: evidence from zircons at the Aucanquilcha volcanic cluster, northern Chile. Geology 38:1007–1010

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Wartho J (1995) Apparent argon diffusive loss 40Ar/39Ar age spectra in amphiboles. Earth Planet Sci Lett 134:393–407

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Wartho J, Dodson MH, Rex DC, Guise PG (1991) Mechanisms of Ar release from Himalayan metamorphic hornblende. Am Mineral 76:1446–1448

    Google Scholar 

  • Watson EB, Harrison TM (1983) Zircon saturation revisited: temperature and composition effects in a variety of crustal magma types. Earth Planet Sci Lett 64:295–304

    Article  Google Scholar 

Download references

Acknowledgments

This research was supported by National Science Foundation grant EAR-0538129 awarded to Coleman and EAR- 0538094 awarded to John Bartley (University of Utah). Additional funding was provided by Sigma Xi (J. Davis, J. Gracely), the Geological Society of America (J. Davis, M. Stearns), the White Mountain Research Station (J. Davis, J. Gracely, R. Gaschnig), the University of Utah Department of Geology and Geophysics (M. Stearns), and the Martin Fellowship and Charles S. Bartlett funds administered by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (J. Davis, J. Gracely, R. Gaschnig). We would like to especially acknowledge Allen Glazner, John Bartley, Matt Heizler for reviewing this manuscript and providing thoughtful insight pertaining to the issues addressed here. Special thanks to Matt Heizler and Lisa Peters who provided technical support at the New Mexico Geochronology Research Laboratory, New Mexico Bureau of Geology. We thank Jon Blundy, Luca Caricchi, and an anonymous reviewer for thoughtful insights and comments regarding this manuscript. Logistical support from Kings Canyon Nation Park and the National Forest Service is greatly appreciated.

Author information

Author notes

  1. Jesse W. Davis

    Present address: ExxonMobil Production Company, 396 West Greens Road, Houston, TX, 77067, USA

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Geological Sciences, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 104 South Road, Mitchell Hall, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, USA

    Jesse W. Davis & Drew S. Coleman

  2. ExxonMobil Exploration Company, P.O. Box 4778, Houston, TX, 77060, USA

    John T. Gracely

  3. School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Washington State University, Webster Physical Science Building, Pullman, WA, 99164, USA

    Richard Gaschnig

  4. Department of Earth Science, University of California, Webb Hall, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, USA

    Michael Stearns

Authors
  1. Jesse W. Davis
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Drew S. Coleman
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. John T. Gracely
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  4. Richard Gaschnig
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  5. Michael Stearns
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Jesse W. Davis.

Additional information

Communicated by J. Blundy.

Electronic supplementary material

Below is the link to the electronic supplementary material.

Supplementary material 1 (PDF 79 kb)

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Davis, J.W., Coleman, D.S., Gracely, J.T. et al. Magma accumulation rates and thermal histories of plutons of the Sierra Nevada batholith, CA. Contrib Mineral Petrol 163, 449–465 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00410-011-0683-7

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Accepted:

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00410-011-0683-7

Keywords

Search

Navigation