Stratigraphic and structural relations between the trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt and the Sierra Madre Occidental in the Guadalajara region, Jalisco, Mexico

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 334, Issue , 2000, Pages 85-97

  Spinnler, Jacopo ^a,d   Garduño, Victor Hugo ^b   Ceragioli, Enrico ^c  

^a SHELL GLOBAL SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL B V   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD MICHOACANA DE SAN NICOLÁS DE HIDALGO   (Mexico)

^c Enterprise Oil Company   (Italy)

^d Shell Deepwater Development Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAULTING; STRATIGRAPHY; TOPOGRAPHY;

GEOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; GEOMETRIC RELATIONSHIPS; LACUSTRINE SEDIMENTS; MORPHOLOGICAL FEATURES; QUATERNARY VOLCANOES; STRATIGRAPHIC UNITS; TRANS-MEXICAN VOLCANIC BELT; VOLCANIC ACTIVITIES;

VOLCANOES;

EOCENE; FAULTING; HIATUS; IGNIMBRITE; MIOCENE; NEOGENE; OLIGOCENE; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; VOLCANIC LANDFORM; VOLCANISM;

GUADALAJARA [JALISCO]; JALISCO; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; SIERRA MADRE OCCIDENTAL; SIERRA MADRE [MEXICO]; TRANS-MEXICAN VOLCANIC BELT;

EID: 54249166319     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2334-5.85     Document Type: Article

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