Fifty-five-million-year history of oceanic subduction and exhumation at the northern edge of the Caribbean plate (Sierra del Convento mélange, Cuba)

Journal of Metamorphic Geology

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 19-40

  Lazaro C ^a   Garcia Casco A ^a,b   Rojas Agramonte, Y ^c   Kroner A ^c   Neubauer, F ^d   Iturralde Vinent, M ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO ANDALUZ DE CIENCIAS DE LA TIERRA   (Spain)

^c JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

^e Museo Nacional de Historia Natural Cuba   (Cuba)

Author keywords

Ar Ar dating; Caribbean subduction; Cooling exhumation rates; P T t paths; SHRIMP dating

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBOLITE; CARIBBEAN PLATE; COOLING; CRYSTALLIZATION; EXHUMATION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; P-T-T PATH; PARTIAL MELTING; PETROLOGY; SHRIMP DATING; SUBDUCTION; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TONALITE; TRONDHJEMITE; URANIUM-LEAD DATING;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; CUBA; GREATER ANTILLES;

EID: 58149093685     PISSN: 02634929     EISSN: 15251314     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-1314.2008.00800.x     Document Type: Article

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