The Valle de Bravo Volcanic Field: Geology and geomorphometric parameters of a Quaternary monogenetic field at the front of the Mexican Volcanic Belt

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 402, Issue , 2006, Pages 139-154

  Aguirre Díaz, Gerardo J ^a   Del Carmen Jaimes Viera, María ^a   Nieto Obregón, Jorge ^a  

^a CENTRO DE GEOCIENCIAS   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Geomorphology; M xico; Monogenetic volcanism; Pliocene quaternary

Indexed keywords

DOMES; GEOMORPHOLOGY; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; VOLCANIC ROCKS;

HORIZONTAL STRESS; MONOGENETIC VOLCANISM; MORPHOMETRIC PARAMETERS; NEVADO DE TOLUCA VOLCANO; PALEOTOPOGRAPHY; PLATE CONVERGENCE; PLIOCENE; STRESS DIRECTIONS;

VOLCANOES;

COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; EOCENE-OLIGOCENE BOUNDARY; GEOMORPHOLOGICAL MAPPING; LAVA DOME; MORPHOMETRY; PLATE CONVERGENCE; PLIOCENE-PLEISTOCENE BOUNDARY; QUATERNARY; SHIELD VOLCANO; STRESS; VOLCANIC BELT;

MEXICO [MEXICO (NTN)]; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NEVADO DE TOLUCA; TRANS-MEXICAN VOLCANIC BELT; VALLE DE BRAVO;

TOLUCA;

EID: 55549093801     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2006.2402(06)     Document Type: Conference Paper

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