Colon fold belt of Honduras: Evidence for Late Cretaceous collision between the continental Chortis block and intra-oceanic Caribbean arc

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 428, Issue , 2007, Pages 129-149

  Rogers, Robert D ^a,d   Mann, Paul ^a   Emmet, Peter A ^b   Venable, Margaret E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b Cy Fair College   (United States)

^c Chevron   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Caribbean arc; Chortis; Collision; Fold thrust belt

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; OFFSHORE OIL WELL PRODUCTION; VOLCANIC ROCKS;

CARIBBEAN ARC; CHORTIS; COLLISION; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; DEFORMATION FRONT; EXPLORATION DRILLING; FOLD-THRUST BELTS; SEISMIC REFLECTIONS;

OFFSHORE OIL WELLS;

BORDER REGION; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CRETACEOUS; DRILLING; EMPLACEMENT; EXPLORATION; FOLD AND THRUST BELT; FOLD BELT; HANGING WALL; ISLAND ARC; MAPPING; SEISMIC REFLECTION;

CHORTIS BLOCK; HONDURAS;

EID: 75749094068     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2007.2428(06)     Document Type: Article

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