Late Jurassic oceanic crust and upper cretaceous Caribbean plateau picritic basalts exposed in the Duarte igneous complex, Hispaniola

Journal of Geology

Volumn 107, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 193-207

  Lapierre, Henriette ^a   Dupuis, Vincent ^a,b   De Lépinay, Bernard Mercier ^a,b   Bosch, Delphine ^a,c   Monié, Patrick ^a,c   Tardy, Marc ^a,d   Maury, René C ^a,e   Hernandez, Jean ^a,f   Polvé, Mireille ^a,g   Yeghicheyan, Delphine ^a,g   Cotten, Joseph ^a,e  

^a UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE NICE SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS   (France)

^c UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE SAVOIE   (France)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE BRETAGNE OCCIDENTALE   (France)

^f UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^g Environmental Research Observatory (ORE) HYBAM Centre IRD d'Ile de France   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASALT; MESOZOIC; MID-OCEAN RIDGE BASALT; OCEANIC CRUST; PLATEAU;

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC; DUARTE COMPLEX;

EID: 0032814437     PISSN: 00221376     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/314341     Document Type: Article

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