Detrital zircon ages from the lower Santa Rosa formation, Chiapas: Implications on regional Paleozoic stratigraphy;Edades de zircones detríticos de la Formación Santa Rosa Inferior, Chiapas: Implicaciones para la estratigrafía regional

Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geologicas

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 260-276

  Weber, Bodo ^a   Valencia, Victor A ^b   Schaaf, Peter ^c   Ortega Gutiérrez, Fernando ^c  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN CIENTÍFICA Y DE EDUCACIÓN SUPERIOR DE ENSENADA   (Mexico)

^b The University of Arizona   (United States)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Paleozoic; Provenance age; Santa Rosa formation; SE Mexico; Zircon

Indexed keywords

EID: 69349087716     PISSN: 10268774     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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