Pre-collision evolution of the Piñón oceanic terrane of SW Ecuador: Stratigraphy and geochemistry of the "Calentura Formation"

Bulletin de la Societe Geologique de France

Volumn 179, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 433-443

  Van Melle, Jeremie ^a   Vilema, Washinton ^b   Faure Brac, Bastien ^a   Ordoñez, Martha ^b   Lapierre, Henriette ^d   Jimenez, Nelson ^b   Jaillard, Etienne ^a,c   Garcia, Milton ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^b Centro de Investigaciones Geologicas Guayaquil   (Ecuador)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Ecuador; Geochemistry; Geodynamics; Late Cretaceous; Petrography; Stratigraphy

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CAMPANIAN; CHEMOSTRATIGRAPHY; COLLISION ZONE; CONIACIAN; GEODYNAMICS; ISLAND ARC; MAASTRICHTIAN; PETROGRAPHY; PLATEAU; RECONSTRUCTION; SANTONIAN; SUBDUCTION; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TERRANE; TURBIDITE;

ECUADOR; SOUTH AMERICA;

CONIACIAN; TILLANDSIA LINEATISPICA;

EID: 54049141379     PISSN: 00379409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gssgfbull.179.5.433     Document Type: Article

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