Transpression, displacement partitioning, and exhumation in the eastern Caribbean / South American plate boundary zone

Tectonics

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 272-289

  Ave Lallemant, Hans G ^a  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METAMORPHISM; OBLIQUE CONVERGENCE; OROGENSEIS; TECTONICS; TRANSPRESSION;

VENEZUELA;

EID: 0030782946     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96TC03725     Document Type: Article

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