Development of the Gulf of Guayaquil (Ecuador) during the Quaternary as an effect of the North Andean block tectonic escape

Tectonics

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2006, Pages

  Witt, César ^a,b   Bourgois, Jacques ^a,b,c,d   Michaud, François ^a,b   Ordoñez, Martha ^e   Jiménez, Nelson ^e   Sosson, Marc ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE D OCÉANOGRAPHIE DE VILLEFRANCHE   (France)

^b ESCUELA POLITÉCNICA NACIONAL   (Ecuador)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^e Geological Research Centre of Guayaquil   (Ecuador)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIN EVOLUTION; DETACHMENT FAULT; GRABEN; MID-OCEAN RIDGE; QUATERNARY; SUBDUCTION;

CARNEGIE RIDGE; GULF OF GUAYAQUIL; PACIFIC OCEAN;

ESPERANZA;

EID: 33751379081     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004TC001723     Document Type: Article

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