Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica: A single suite of Caribbean oceanic plateau magmas

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 102, Issue B7, 1997, Pages 15507-15520

  Sinton, Christopher W ^a,c   Duncan, Robert A ^a   Denyer, Percy ^b  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE COSTA RICA   (Costa Rica)

^c UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS; IGNEOUS GEOCHEMISTRY; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; MAGMATISM; OCEANIC PLATEAU;

COSTA RICA, NICOYA PENINSULA;

EID: 0031457195     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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