Detrital zircon U/Pb geochronology of southern Guerrero and western Mixteca arc successions (southern Mexico): New insights for the tectonic evolution of southwestern North America during the late Mesozoic

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 119, Issue 9-10, 2007, Pages 1052-1065

  Talavera Mendoza, Oscar ^a,b   Ruiz, Joaquín ^b   Gehrels, George E ^b   Valencia, Victor A ^b   Centeno García, Elena ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE GUERRERO   (Mexico)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Caribbean region; Guerrero terrane; Late Jurassic Cretaceous arc successions; Mixteca terrane; Southern Mexico; Southwestern North America; U Pb detrital zircon

Indexed keywords

LATEJURASSIC-CRETACEOUS ARC SUCCESSIONS; ZIRCON GEOCHRONOLOGY;

GEOCHEMISTRY; LEAD; SANDSTONE; TECTONICS; URANIUM; VOLCANIC ROCKS;

GEOCHRONOLOGY;

GEOCHRONOLOGY; MESOZOIC; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TERRANE; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; VOLCANICLASTIC DEPOSIT; ZIRCON;

GUERRERO; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 34648843073     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 00167606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B26016.1     Document Type: Article

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