Cretaceous alkaline intra-plate magmatism in the Ecuadorian Oriente Basin: Geochemical, geochronological and tectonic evidence

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 236, Issue 3-4, 2005, Pages 670-690

  Barragán, Roberto ^a,c   Baby, Patrice ^a   Duncan, Robert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Oxy Ecuador   (Ecuador)

Author keywords

Alkaline magmatism; Cretaceous; Ecuador; Northern Andes; Oriente Basin; Roll back; Transpressive inversion

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITIONAL VARIATION; CRETACEOUS ALKALINE MAGNETISM; ECUADOR; TRANSPRESSIVE INVERSION;

ALKALINE EARTH METALS; ANALYTICAL GEOCHEMISTRY; CHARACTERIZATION; COMPOSITION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; ISOTOPES; MAGNETISM; RADIOMETRY; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; STRATIGRAPHY; TECTONICS;

BASALT;

BASALT; CRETACEOUS; MAGMATISM;

ECUADOR; SOUTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

LILE;

EID: 24344507335     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2005.03.016     Document Type: Article

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