Isotope geochemistry and petrogenesis of peralkaline Middle Miocene ignimbrites from central Sonora: Relationship with continental break-up and the birth of the Gulf of California

Bulletin de la Societe Geologique de France

Volumn 179, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 453-464

  Vidal Solano, Jesús R ^a,b   Lapierre, Henriette ^c   Stock, Joann M ^d   Demant, Alain ^b   Paz Moreno, Francisco A ^a   Bosch, Delphine ^e   Brunet, Pierre ^e   Amortegui, Andrea ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE SONORA   (Mexico)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Gulf of California; Isotope geochemistry; Middle Miocene; Peralkaline ignimbrites

Indexed keywords

CALDERA; CONTINENTAL BREAKUP; CONTINENTAL CRUST; FRACTIONAL CRYSTALLIZATION; GEODYNAMICS; IGNEOUS GEOCHEMISTRY; IGNIMBRITE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MAGMA; MIOCENE; NORTH AMERICAN PLATE; PACIFIC PLATE; PERALKALINE ROCK; PETROGENESIS; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

GULF OF CALIFORNIA; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC OCEAN; SONORA;

EID: 49749134243     PISSN: 00379409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gssgfbull.179.5.453     Document Type: Article

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