Petrologic and structural history of Tobago,West Indies: A fragment of the accreted Mesozoic oceanic arc of the southern Caribbean

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 354, Issue , 2001, Pages 1-54

  Snoke, Arthur W ^a   Rowe, David W ^a,c   Yule, J Douglas ^a,d   Wadge, Geoffrey ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^c California State University ^*  (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATES; BIOTITE; DEFORMATION; DEPOSITS; FAULT SLIPS; FELDSPAR; HYDRAULIC STRUCTURES; LEVEES; MAGNESITE; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; OFFSHORE OIL WELL PRODUCTION; PILES; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); RADIOMETRY; SHEAR STRAIN; STRATIGRAPHY; STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TEXTURES; VOLCANOES;

BLOCK-AND-ASH FLOW DEPOSITS; LOW-GRADE METAMORPHISM; METAMORPHIC CONDITIONS; PLATE-TECTONIC MODELS; SEISMIC REFLECTION PROFILES; STRATIGRAPHIC INTERVALS; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT SYSTEMS; VOLCANICLASTIC DEPOSITS;

VOLCANIC ROCKS;

ALBIAN; AMPHIBOLITE FACIES; AUREOLE; BIOTITE; BRITTLE DEFORMATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; DIKE SWARM; EMPLACEMENT; FOLIATION; GREENSCHIST FACIES; HIATUS; HORNBLENDE; NORMAL FAULT; PETROLOGY; PLATE BOUNDARY; PROTOLITH; TONALITE; WALL ROCK;

ARUBA; BONAIRE; LEEWARD ISLANDS [LESSER ANTILLES]; TOBAGO; TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO; VENEZUELA;

EID: 34648853622     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2354-X.1     Document Type: Article

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