The origin of post-Paleozoic magmatism in eastern Paraguay

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 430, Issue , 2007, Pages 603-633

  Comin Chiaramonti, Piero ^a   Marzoli, Andrea ^b   De Barros Gomes, Celso ^c   Milan, Anderson ^c   Riccomini, Claudio ^c   Velázquez, Victor Fernandez ^c   Mantovani, Marta M S ^c   Renne, Paul ^d,e   Tassinari, Colombo Celso Gaeta ^c   Vasconcelos, Paulo Marcos ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e BERKELEY GEOCHRONOLOGY CENTER   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Alkaline magmatism; Eastern Paraguay; Geochemistry; Geodynamic implications; Isotopic ages

Indexed keywords

BINARY ALLOYS; FLOODS; GEOCHEMISTRY; GEODYNAMICS; ISOTOPES; NIOBIUM ALLOYS; ROCKS; TANTALUM ALLOYS;

DIFFERENTIAL ROTATION; GEOCHEMICAL CHARACTERISTIC; GEODYNAMIC IMPLICATIONS; ISOTOPIC AGE; MAGMATISMS; PARAGUAY; THERMAL PERTURBATIONS; THOLEIITIC MAGMATISM;

NEODYMIUM ALLOYS;

ALKALINE ROCK; ANISIAN; APTIAN; BARREMIAN; CRETACEOUS; GEOCHEMISTRY; HAUTERIVIAN; LITHOSPHERE; MAGMATISM; PALEOZOIC; PERTURBATION; PRECAMBRIAN; ROTATION; TAXONOMY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; PARAGUAY; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTH AMERICA;

ANISIA;

EID: 55149123280     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2007.2430(29)     Document Type: Article

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