Exhumation and deformation processes in transpressional orogens: The Venezuelan Paria Peninsula, SE Caribbean-South American plate boundary

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 434, Issue , 2007, Pages 149-165

  Cruz, Leonardo ^a   Fayon, Annia ^a   Teyssier, Christian ^a   Weber, John ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b GRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymmetric erosion; Exhumation; NE Venezuela; Transpression

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; EROSION; PHOSPHATE MINERALS; SILICATE MINERALS; STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TEMPERATURE; TOPOGRAPHY; ZIRCON;

APATITE FISSION TRACK AGES; CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC PREFERRED ORIENTATIONS; EXHUMATION; METAMORPHOSED SEDIMENTS; PRECIPITATION PATTERNS; TRANSPRESSION; VENEZUELA; ZIRCON FISSION TRACKS;

FISSION REACTIONS;

ASYMMETRY; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; EXHUMATION; FISSION TRACK DATING; GREENSCHIST FACIES; METAMORPHIC ROCK; METAMORPHISM; OROGENY; SAMPLING; TRANSPRESSION;

PARIA PENINSULA; SUCRE [VENEZUELA]; VENEZUELA;

PARIA;

EID: 75749105405     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2007.2434(08)     Document Type: Article

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