Two contrasting pressure-temperature-time paths in the Villa de Cura blueschist belt, Venezuela: Possible evidence for late cretaceous initiation of subduction in the Caribbean

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 111, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 831-848

  Smith, C A ^a   Sisson, V B ^a   Ave Lallemant ^a   Copeland, P ^b  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOLOGY;

GEOTHERMAL GRADIENTS; HIGH PRESSURE; LATE CRETACEOUS; LESSER ANTILLES; POLARITY REVERSAL; PRESSURE-TEMPERATURE-TIME PATHS; SOUTH AMERICA; SUBDUCTION ZONES;

SILICATE MINERALS;

BLUESCHIST FACIES; CARIBBEAN PLATE; CRETACEOUS; METAMORPHISM; P-T-T PATH; SUBDUCTION;

VENEZUELA;

EID: 0032875892     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0016-7606(1999)111<0831:TCPTTP>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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