Pacific offshore record of plinian arc volcanism in Central America: 3. Application to forearc geology

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Kutterolf, S ^a   Freundt, A ^a   Schacht, U ^a,b   Burk D ^a   Harders, R ^a   Morz T ^a,c   Perez W ^a  

^a GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Central America; Forearc geology; Marine tephrostratigraphy; Mound structures; Plinian volcanism; Submarine slides

Indexed keywords

EID: 41549086630     PISSN: 15252027     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GC001826     Document Type: Article

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