U/Pb LA-MC-ICP-MS zircon geochronology and geochemistry from a postcollisional biotite granite of the baja guajira basin, Colombia: Implications for late cretaceous and neogene caribbean-south American tectonics

Journal of Geology

Volumn 117, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 685-692

  Cardona, A ^a,b   Valencia, V ^c   Bayona, G ^d   Jaramillo, C ^a   Ojeda, G ^b   Ruiz, J ^c  

^a SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^b ECOPETROL S A   (Colombia)

^c University of Arizona   (United States)

^d Corporación Geológica ARES ^*  (Colombia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CRETACEOUS; GEOCHEMISTRY; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GRANITE; NEOGENE; OLIGOCENE; PLATE TECTONICS; RARE EARTH ELEMENT; SUBDUCTION;

COLOMBIA; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 70350066516     PISSN: 00221376     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/605776     Document Type: Article

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