Accreted oceanic terranes in Ecuador: Southern edge of the Caribbean Plate?

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 328, Issue , 2009, Pages 469-485

  Jaillard, Etienne ^a,b   Lapierre, Henriette ^c   Ordoñez, Martha ^c   Álava, Jorge Toro ^c   Amórtegui, Andrea ^b   Vanmelle, Jérémie ^b  

^a OBSERVATOIRE MIDI PYRÉNÉES   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^c Petroproducción CIG Guayaquil ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCRETION; BACKARC BASIN; CAMPANIAN; CARIBBEAN PLATE; HOT SPOT; ISLAND ARC; MAASTRICHTIAN; PALEOCENE; PLATE BOUNDARY; PLATE MOTION; PLATE TECTONICS; SUBDUCTION ZONE; SUBMARINE PLATEAU;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN SEA; ECUADOR; GALAPAGOS ISLANDS;

CONIACIAN; TILLANDSIA LINEATISPICA;

EID: 75249096996     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/SP328.19     Document Type: Article

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