Structural contacts in subduction complexes and their tectonic significance: The Late Palaeozoic coastal accretionary wedge of central Chile

Journal of the Geological Society

Volumn 164, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 203-214

  Richter, Peter P ^a   Ring, Uwe ^b   Willner, Arne P ^c   Leiss, Bernd ^d  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^c RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCRETION; BASAL AREA; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; DEFORMATION; FOLIATION; METAMORPHOSIS; PALEOZOIC; SEDIMENTARY ROCK; STRUCTURAL CONTROL; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; SUBDUCTION; TECTONIC SETTING;

CHILE; PACIFIC COAST [CHILE]; PACIFIC COAST [SOUTH AMERICA]; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 33846323288     PISSN: 00167649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/0016-76492005-181     Document Type: Article

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