The North American-Caribbean Plate boundary in Mexico-Guatemala-Honduras

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 328, Issue , 2009, Pages 219-293

  Ratschbacher, Lothar ^a   Franz, Leander ^a   Min, Myo ^a   Bachmann, Raik ^a   Martens, Uwe ^b   Stanek, Klaus ^a   Stübner, Konstanze ^a   Nelson, Bruce K ^c   Herrmann, Uwe ^c   Weber, Bodo ^d   López Martínez, Margarita ^d   Jonckheere, Raymond ^a   Sperner, Blanka ^a   Tichomirowa, Marion ^a   Mcwilliams, Michael O ^b   Gordon, Mark ^e   Meschede, Martin ^f   Bock, Peter ^a  

^a TU BERGAKADEMIE FREIBERG   (Germany)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

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

^e RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCRETION; CARIBBEAN PLATE; CENOZOIC; COLLISION ZONE; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CRETACEOUS; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DEFORMATION; FOLD AND THRUST BELT; GEOCHRONOLOGY; JURASSIC; KINEMATICS; MAGMATISM; METAMORPHISM; OCEANIC CRUST; OPHIOLITE; PALEOZOIC; PLATE BOUNDARY; PLATE TECTONICS; RIFTING; SPREADING CENTER; SUBDUCTION; TECTONIC RECONSTRUCTION; TERRANE;

GUATEMALA [CENTRAL AMERICA]; HONDURAS; MAYA BLOCK; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA];

EID: 75249098096     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/SP328.11     Document Type: Article

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