Stratigraphic record across a retroarc basin inversion: Rocas Verdes-Magallanes Basin, Patagonian Andes, Chile

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 117, Issue 11-12, 2005, Pages 1596-1614

  Fildani, Andrea ^a,b   Hessler, Angela M ^c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CHEVRON ENERGY TECHNOLOGY COMPANY   (United States)

^c GRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Backarc basin; Geochemical modeling; Magallanes foreland basin; Orogenic evolution; Patagonian Andes; Provenance

Indexed keywords

GEOCHEMICAL MODELING; OCEANIC CRUST EMPLACEMENT; OROGENIC EVOLUTION; RETROARC BASIN INVERSION; SILTSTONE;

GEOCHEMISTRY; LITHOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MINERALOGY; OCEANOGRAPHY; SANDSTONE; SEDIMENTS; SHALE; STRATIGRAPHY; TECTONICS; VOLCANOES;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

BASIN EVOLUTION; INVERSION TECTONICS; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION;

CHILE; SOUTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

ESPERANZA;

EID: 27844552552     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 00167606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B25708.1     Document Type: Article

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