Provenance of the Upper Cretaceous to upper Eocene clastic sediments of the Western Cordillera of Ecuador: Geodynamic implications

Tectonophysics

Volumn 399, Issue 1-4 SPEC. ISS., 2005, Pages 279-292

  Toro Álava, Jorge ^a,b   Jaillard, Etienne ^b,c  

^a Petroproducción ^*  (Ecuador)

^b UNIVERSITÉ GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^c INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

Campanian Eocene; Clastic sediments; Ecuador; Sedimentary petrography; Source areas

Indexed keywords

CLASTIC SEDIMENT; CRETACEOUS; DEPOCENTER; PALEOGENE; PROVENANCE; UPLIFT;

ANDES; CORDILLERA OCCIDENTAL [ANDES]; ECUADOR; SOUTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

TILLANDSIA LINEATISPICA;

EID: 17444377944     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2004.12.026     Document Type: Article

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