Influence of the subduction of the Carnegie volcanic ridge on Ecuadorian geology: Reality and fiction

Memoir of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 204, Issue , 2009, Pages 217-228

  Michaud, François ^a,b   Witt, Cesar ^a,b,d   Royer, Jean Yves ^c  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b ESCUELA POLITÉCNICA NACIONAL   (Ecuador)

^c UNIVERSITÉ EUROPÉENNE DE BRETAGNE   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COUPLINGS; OFFSHORE OIL WELL PRODUCTION; VOLCANOES;

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; EXHUMATION RATES; GEOLOGICAL EVENTS; GEOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; GEOLOGICAL FEATURES; INTERPLATE COUPLING; REGIONAL TECTONICS; VOLCANIC MATERIALS;

GEOLOGY;

CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; CONTINENTAL COLLISION; DEFORMATION; EXHUMATION; PLATE CONVERGENCE; SUBDUCTION; SUBMARINE RIDGE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

ANDES; CARNEGIE RIDGE; ECUADOR; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 77949854869     PISSN: 00721069     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2009.1204(10)     Document Type: Conference Paper

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