Magmatism and tectonics of the Sierra Madre Occidental and relation with the evolution of the western margin of North Ame

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 422, Issue , 2007, Pages 1-39

  Ferrari, Luca ^a   Valencia Moreno, Martín ^b   Bryan, Scott ^c,d  

^a CENTRO DE GEOCIENCIAS   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d KINGSTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Continental magmatism; Extensional tectonics; Gulf of California; Sierra Madre Occidental; Silicic large igneous province; Subduction dynamics.

Indexed keywords

BASALT; COPPER DEPOSITS; DEFORMATION; FAULT SLIPS; GRANITE; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); STRATIGRAPHY; VOLCANOES;

EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; GULF OF CALIFORNIA; LARGE IGNEOUS PROVINCES; MAGMATISMS; SIERRA MADRE OCCIDENTAL; SUBDUCTION DYNAMICS;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

ANDESITE; ASTHENOSPHERE; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CRYSTALLIZATION; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FRACTIONAL CRYSTALLIZATION; IGNIMBRITE; LARAMIDE OROGENY; LARGE IGNEOUS PROVINCE; MAASTRICHTIAN; MAGMATISM; MESOZOIC; MIOCENE; NORMAL FAULT; NORTH AMERICAN PLATE; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; OLIGOCENE; PALEOZOIC; PARTIAL MELTING; PORPHYRY; RHYOLITE; SUBDUCTION; TECTONICS; TILT; UNDERPLATING; UPPER MANTLE; VOLCANISM;

CHIHUAHUA; GULF OF CALIFORNIA; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; PACIFIC OCEAN; SIERRA MADRE OCCIDENTAL; SIERRA MADRE [MEXICO]; SINALOA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 36849070986     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2007.2422(01)     Document Type: Article

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