Ordovician-Silurian rift-passive margin on the Mexican margin of the Rheic Ocean overlain by Carboniferous-Permian periarc rocks: Evidence from the eastern Acatlán Complex, southern Mexico

Tectonophysics

Volumn 461, Issue 1-4, 2008, Pages 291-310

  Morales Gámez, Miguel ^a   Keppie, J Duncan ^a   Norman, Marc ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Acatl n Complex; Geochronology; Mexico; Ordovician; Permo Carboniferous

Indexed keywords

CARBONIFEROUS; GEOCHRONOLOGY; ORDOVICIAN; PASSIVE MARGIN; PERMIAN; SILURIAN; TRIASSIC; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA;

FICUS OBTUSIFOLIA;

EID: 55549107539     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2008.01.014     Document Type: Article

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