The Triassic Zacatecas Formation in central Mexico: Paleotectonic, paleogeographic, and paleobiogeographic implications

AAPG Memoir

Volumn 75, Issue , 2001, Pages 295-315

  Bartolini, Claudio ^a   Lang, Harold ^b   Cantú Chapa, Abelardo ^c   Barboza Gudiño, Rafael ^d  

^a California Institute of Technology ^*

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO NACIONAL   (Mexico)

^d UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE SAN LUIS POTOSÍ   (Mexico)

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