Thermochronology and tectonics of the Leeward Antilles: Evolution of the southern Caribbean Plate boundary zone

Tectonics

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Van Der Lelij, Roelant ^a   Spikings, Richard A ^a   Kerr, Andrew C ^b   Kounov, Alexandre ^c   Cosca, Michael ^d   Chew, David ^e   Villagomez, Diego ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^d DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

^e TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APATITE; BUILDINGS; CRYSTALLINE ROCKS; PHOSPHATE MINERALS; TECTONICS;

APATITE FISSION TRACKS; CRYSTALLINE BASEMENT; EARLY MIOCENE; ISLAND ARC; LATE EOCENE; LATE MIOCENE; LATE OLIGOCENE; OCEANIC PLATEAUX; PLATE BOUNDARIES; STRUCTURAL DISPLACEMENT; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; THERMOCHRONOLOGY; TRANSPRESSION; TRANSTENSION;

PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS);

APATITE; ARGON-ARGON DATING; CARIBBEAN PLATE; CONTINENTAL COLLISION; DANIAN; EXHUMATION; FISSION TRACK DATING; ISLAND ARC; MAASTRICHTIAN; METAMORPHISM; MIOCENE; PLATE BOUNDARY; SANTONIAN; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC RECONSTRUCTION; THERMOCHRONOLOGY; TRANSPRESSION; URANIUM-LEAD DATING;

ARUBA; BONAIRE; LESSER ANTILLES; NETHERLANDS ANTILLES;

EID: 78649294897     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009TC002654     Document Type: Article

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