Late Jurassic bimodal magmatism in the northern sea-floor remnant of the Rocas Verdes basin, southern Patagonian Andes

Journal of the Geological Society

Volumn 164, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1011-1022

  Calderon M ^a   Fildani, A ^b   Herve F ^a   Fanning, C M ^c   Weislogel, A ^b   Cordani, U ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DACITE; DETRITAL DEPOSIT; JURASSIC; MAGMATISM; PLAGIOGRANITE; RIFTING; SEAFLOOR; SEDIMENTATION; ZIRCON;

AUSTRAL BASIN; PATAGONIA; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 34548684553     PISSN: 00167649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/0016-76492006-102     Document Type: Article

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