Along-strike variations in the thermal and tectonic response of the continental Ecuadorian Andes to the collision with heterogeneous oceanic crust

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 186, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 57-73

  Spikings, R A ^a   Winkler, W ^a   Seward, D ^a   Handler, R ^b  

^a GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

Author keywords

Carnegie ridge; Carribean plate; Ecuador; Northern Andes; Tectonics; Thermochronology

Indexed keywords

COLLISION ZONE; COOLING; OCEANIC CRUST; PLATE CONVERGENCE; STRIKE (GEOLOGY); TECTONICS; THERMOCHRONOLOGY;

ECUADOR;

EID: 0035047869     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(01)00225-4     Document Type: Article

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