Late Mesozoic and Cenozoic thermotectonic history of the Mexican Pacific margin (18 to 25°N): New insight from apatite and zircon fission-track analysis of coastal and offshore plutonic rocks

Tectonophysics

Volumn 306, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 163-182

  Calmus, Thierry ^a   Poupeau, Gérard ^b   Bourgois, Jacques ^c   Michaud, François ^c   Mercier De Lépinay, Bernard ^d   Labrin, Erika ^b   Azdimousa, Ali ^e  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b Institut Dolomieu   (France)

^c SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE NICE SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS   (France)

^e FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES   (Morocco)

Author keywords

Acapulco trench; Fission track dating; Mexico; Subduction; Tectonics; Thermochronology

Indexed keywords

BATHOLITH; COOLING; MESOZOIC; PLUTON; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TECTONICS; THERMOCHRONOLOGY;

MEXICO;

EID: 0033563398     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(99)00049-9     Document Type: Article

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