Buruanga peninsula and Antique Range: Two contrasting terranes in Northwest Panay, Philippines featuring an arc-continent collision zone

Island Arc

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 443-457

  Zamoras, Lawrence R ^a   Montes, Mary Grace A ^b   Queaño, Karlo L ^c   Marquez, Edanjarlo J ^d   Dimalanta, Carla B ^b   Gabo, Jillian Aira S ^b   Yumul, Graciano P ^b,e  

^a Philex Mining Corporation   (Philippines)

^b University of the Philippines   (Philippines)

^c Mines and Geosciences Bureau Philippines   (Philippines)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES MANILA   (Philippines)

^e NONE   (Philippines)

Author keywords

Arc continent collision; Buruanga peninsula; Busuanga Island; Chert clastics limestone sequence; North Palawan terrane; Ocean plate stratigraphy

Indexed keywords

ARC-CONTINENT COLLISION; BASALT; COLLISION ZONE; LAVA FLOW; LIMESTONE; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; MUDSTONE; PLATE TECTONICS; PYROCLASTIC DEPOSIT; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; TERRANE;

ANTIQUE; ASIA; BUSUANGA ISLAND; EURASIA; PALAWAN; PANAY; PHILIPPINES; SOUTHEAST ASIA; SOUTHERN TAGALOG; VISAYAS; WESTERN VISAYAS;

EID: 57049173341     PISSN: 10384871     EISSN: 14401738     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1738.2008.00645.x     Document Type: Article

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