Tectonomagmatic setting and provenance of the Santa Marta Schists, northern Colombia: Insights on the growth and approach of Cretaceous Caribbean oceanic terranes to the South American continent

Journal of South American Earth Sciences

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 784-804

  Cardona, A ^a,b   Valencia, V ^c   Bustamante, C ^d   Garcia Casco A ^e   Ojeda, G ^b   Ruiz, J ^c   Saldarriaga, M ^d   Weber, M ^f  

^a SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^b ECOPETROL S A   (Colombia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSIDAD EAFIT   (Colombia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^f UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Back arc; Caribbean plate; Colombia; Cretaceous; Geochemistry; Isotopes; Provenance; U Pb LAM ICP MS

Indexed keywords

CARIBBEAN PLATE; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CRETACEOUS; GEOCHEMISTRY; GEOCHRONOLOGY; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA METHOD; ISLAND ARC; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METAMORPHISM; METASEDIMENTARY ROCK; MID-OCEAN RIDGE BASALT; NEODYMIUM ISOTOPE; OCEANIC CRUST; PROVENANCE; SCHIST; STRONTIUM ISOTOPE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC SETTING; TERRANE; TRACE ELEMENT; UPLIFT; URANIUM-LEAD DATING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN SEA; COLOMBIA; KERMADEC ARC; MAGDALENA; NETHERLANDS ANTILLES; PACIFIC OCEAN; SANTA MARTA;

EID: 77958179301     PISSN: 08959811     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsames.2009.08.012     Document Type: Article

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