Pliocene volcanogenic sedimentation along an accommodation zone in northeastern Baja California: The Puertecitos Formation

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 318, Issue , 1997, Pages 1-24

  Martín Barajas, Arturo ^a   Téllez Duarte, Miguel ^b   Stock, Joann M ^c  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN CIENTÍFICA Y DE EDUCACIÓN SUPERIOR DE ENSENADA   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE BAJA CALIFORNIA   (Mexico)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITS; SEA LEVEL; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY; UNDERWATER MINERALOGY;

ANGULAR UNCONFORMITY; BASIN-BOUNDING FAULTS; BIOCLASTIC CARBONATES; COARSE-GRAINED DEPOSITS; MARINE SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENT ACCUMULATION; VOLCANICLASTIC DEPOSITS; VOLCANO-SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCES;

VOLCANOES;

BLUESCHIST FACIES; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; EXPLOSIVE VOLCANISM; METAMORPHIC FACIES; MIOCENE; PLIOCENE; PYROCLASTIC DEPOSIT; SEDIMENTATION; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; TRANSGRESSION-REGRESSION CYCLE; VOLCANOGENIC DEPOSIT;

BAJA CALIFORNIA SUR; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA];

EID: 33646573426     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2318-3.1     Document Type: Article

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