The Cabo de la Vela Mafic-Ultramafic Complex, Northeastern Colombian Caribbean region: A record of multistage evolution of a Late Cretaceous intra-oceanic arc

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 328, Issue , 2009, Pages 549-568

  Weber, M B I ^a   Cardona, A ^b   Paniagua, F ^a   Cordani, U ^c   Sepulveda L ^a   Wilson, R ^d  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA   (Colombia)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCRETION; ANDESITE; CARIBBEAN PLATE; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CRETACEOUS; DIKE; GABBRO; INTRAPLATE PROCESS; ISLAND ARC; MAFIC ROCK; OPHIOLITE; PLATE MOTION; PLATE TECTONICS; SERPENTINITE; SPREADING CENTER; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC SETTING; ULTRAMAFIC ROCK;

CARIBBEAN COAST [COLOMBIA]; COLOMBIA; GUAJIRA PENINSULA; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 75249102920     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/SP328.22     Document Type: Article

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