Pyroclastic deposits of Mio-Pliocene age in the Arakan Yoma-Andaman-Java subduction complex, Andaman Islands, bay of Bengal, India

Geochemical Journal

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 69-82

  Pal, Tapan ^a   Gupta, Tanay Dutta ^a   Chakraborty, Partha Pratim ^a,b   Das Gupta, Subhas Chandra ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA   (India)

^b INDIAN SCHOOL OF MINES   (India)

Author keywords

Andaman; Archipelago Group; Convergent margin; Pyroclastic; Subaerially errupted

Indexed keywords

MIOCENE; PLIOCENE; PYROCLASTIC DEPOSIT;

ANDAMANS; ANDAMANS AND NICOBARS; ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; INDIA; INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN ISLANDS; OCEANIC REGIONS; SOUTH ASIA; WORLD;

MICA;

EID: 20444405369     PISSN: 00167002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2343/geochemj.39.69     Document Type: Article

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