[
    {
        "id": "authors:tqeye-ykq83",
        "collection": "authors",
        "collection_id": "tqeye-ykq83",
        "cite_using_url": "https://authors.library.caltech.edu/records/tqeye-ykq83",
        "type": "book",
        "title": "Water-rock interactions in the granitic batholiths of British Columbia",
        "book_title": "Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Water-Rock Interaction",
        "author": [
            {
                "family_name": "Magaritz",
                "given_name": "Mordeckai"
            },
            {
                "family_name": "Taylor",
                "given_name": "Hugh P., Jr.",
                "clpid": "Taylor-H-P-Jr"
            }
        ],
        "abstract": "<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Oxygen and hydrogen isotopic analyses of granitic rocks from the Coast&nbsp;Plutonic Complex of British Columbia indicate that gigantic meteoric-hydrothermal&nbsp;convective circulation systems were established during the late Cretaceous and early&nbsp;Tertiary. &delta;D values as low as -180 were produced over broad areas, and at higher&nbsp;water/rock ratios (&gt;0.1), the &delta;18O values were locally decreased by several per mil.&nbsp;Just as is observed in modern rain waters, the &delta;D values of the granitic rocks progressively&nbsp;decrease west-to-east in the sequence: Vancouver Island, Western Coast batholith, Eastern&nbsp;Coast batholith, Okanogan batholith, and Nelson batholith. These isotopic effects&nbsp;are found in all batholiths, except those which have retained K-Ar ages older than 180&nbsp;m. y. (Guichon and Thuya batholiths).</p>",
        "publication_date": "1977",
        "pages": "80-89"
    }
]