Ordovician and Late Paleozoic-Early Mesozoic tectonothermal history of the La Noria area, northern Acatlán Complex, southern Mexico: Record of convergence in the Rheic and paleo-Pacific Oceans

Tectonophysics

Volumn 461, Issue 1-4, 2008, Pages 324-342

  Hinojosa Prieto, H R ^a   Nance, R D ^a   Keppie, J D ^b   Dostal, J V ^c   Ortega Rivera, A ^b   Lee, J K W ^d  

^a OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^c SAINT MARY S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Acatl n Complex; Geochemistry; Geochronology; Mexico; Structure

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; GONDWANA; GRANITOID; HOST ROCK; IGNEOUS INTRUSION; LAURENTIA; LEUCOGRANITE; ORDOVICIAN; PALEOZOIC; PLATE CONVERGENCE; TECTONOPHYSICS;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

CHENOPODIUM AMBROSIOIDES;

EID: 55549135674     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2008.06.002     Document Type: Article

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