Caribbean-South America oblique collision model revised

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 328, Issue , 2009, Pages 613-657

  Higgs, Roger ^a  

^a Geoclastica Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARC-CONTINENT COLLISION; FORELAND BASIN; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBLIQUE FAULT; PASSIVE MARGIN; PLATE BOUNDARY; PLATE CONVERGENCE; PLATE TECTONICS; PULL APART BASIN; RIFTING; SEAFLOOR SPREADING; SUBDUCTION ZONE; SUBSIDENCE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC RECONSTRUCTION; THRUST FAULT; UPLIFT;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN SEA; COLOMBIA; ECUADOR; GULF OF CARAICO; GULF OF PARIA; TRINIDAD [TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO]; TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO; VENEZUELA;

CONIACIAN; FALCONIDAE; PARIA;

EID: 75249091972     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/SP328.25     Document Type: Article

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