Cretaceous-Eocene magmatism and Laramide deformation in southwestern Mexico: No role for terrane accretion

Memoir of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 204, Issue , 2009, Pages 151-182

  Martini, Michelangelo ^a   Ferrari, Luca ^a   López Martínez, Margarita ^b   Cerca Martínez, Mariano ^a   Valencia, Víctor A ^c   Serrano Duran, Lina ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

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

^c University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINARY ALLOYS; BUILDINGS; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; LEAD ALLOYS; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); SEDIMENTOLOGY; SILICATE MINERALS; STRATIGRAPHY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; URANIUM ALLOYS; ZIRCON;

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CONTINENTAL MATERIALS; NORTH AMERICAN PLATES; RECYCLED MATERIALS; SEDIMENTARY RECORDS; SILICIC VOLCANISM; STRUCTURAL STUDIES; TERRANE ACCRETION;

DEFORMATION;

ACCRETION; CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CRETACEOUS; CRUSTAL SHORTENING; DEFORMATION; EOCENE; FOLDING; LARAMIDE OROGENY; MAGMATISM; NORTH AMERICAN PLATE;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA];

EID: 70450196705     PISSN: 00721069     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2009.1204(07)     Document Type: Conference Paper

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