Cretaceous intra-arc rifting, sedimentation, and basin inversion in east-central Honduras

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 428, Issue , 2007, Pages 89-128

  Rogers, Robert D ^a,d   Mann, Paul ^a   Scott, Robert W ^b   Patino, Lina ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TULSA   (United States)

^c MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Caribbean; Chortis block; Cretaceous; Honduras

Indexed keywords

GEOCHEMISTRY; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; STRATIGRAPHY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONICS; VOLCANOES;

CARIBBEAN; CHORTIS BLOCK; CRETACEOUS; HONDURAS; METAMORPHIC BASEMENTS; PRECAMBRIAN BASEMENT; SHALLOW WATER CARBONATES; TECTONIC SETTINGS;

VOLCANIC ROCKS;

APTIAN; CENOMANIAN; CRETACEOUS; GEOCHEMISTRY; ISLAND ARC; RIFTING; SEDIMENTATION; TECTONIC SETTING; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

CHORTIS BLOCK; COMAYAGUA; HONDURAS; MONTANA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 75749108629     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2007.2428(05)     Document Type: Article

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