Late Jurassic age of oceanic basement at La Désirade Island, Lesser Antilles arc

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 438, Issue , 2008, Pages 175-190

  Mattinson, James M ^a   Pessagno, Emile A ^a   Montgomery, Homer ^a   Hopson, Clifford A ^a  

^a Department of California ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Biostratigraphy; Geochronology; Jurassic cretaceous boundary; La D sirade; Ophiolite

Indexed keywords

BINARY ALLOYS; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; GEOCHRONOLOGY; LEAD ALLOYS; LEVEES; MASS SPECTROMETRY; TECTONICS; URANIUM ALLOYS; VOLCANIC ROCKS; VOLCANOES;

CENOZOIC; FOREARC; JURASSIC-CRETACEOUS BOUNDARY; LA DÉSIRADE; LATE JURASSIC; LESSER ANTILLES; MESOZOIC; OPHIOLITE; RADIOLARIA; VOLCANICS;

ZIRCON;

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; ESCARPMENT; FAUNA; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GEODYNAMICS; JURASSIC-CRETACEOUS BOUNDARY; LAVA; OCEANIC CRUST; OPHIOLITE; RADIOLARIA; TECTONIC SETTING; TERTIARY; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

LESSER ANTILLES;

EID: 75249094053     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2008.2438(06)     Document Type: Article

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