Key issues on the post-Mesozoic Southern Caribbean Plate boundary

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 328, Issue , 2009, Pages 569-586

  Audemard, Franck A ^a  

^a Fundacion Venezolana de Investigaciones Sismologicas   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BACKARC BASIN; CARIBBEAN PLATE; FAULTING; GEODYNAMICS; MESOZOIC; PLATE BOUNDARY; PLATE MOTION; PLATE TECTONICS; SPREADING CENTER; SUBDUCTION ZONE;

VENEZUELA;

FALCONIDAE;

EID: 75249100681     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/SP328.23     Document Type: Article

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