U-Pb Neoproterozoic-Ordovician protolith age constraints for high to medium-pressure rocks thrust over low-grade metamorphic rocks in theixcamilpa area, Acatlán Complex, southern Mexico

Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 45-61

  Ramos Arias, M A ^a   Keppie, J D ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE CONSTRAINTS; AMAZONIA; AMPHIBOLITE FACIES; BLUESCHISTS; CAMBRO-ORDOVICIAN; CARBONIFEROUS ROCKS; ECLOGITES; GRANITOIDS; HIGH-PRESSURE ROCKS; LA-ICP-MS; LOW-GRADE METAMORPHIC; ME-XICO; NEOPROTEROZOIC; ORDOVICIAN; OROGENS; PRESSURE BELTS; PROTOLITHS; U-PB ZIRCON; YUCATAN PENINSULA;

ABLATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC INDUCTION; EXTRUSION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA; ROCKS; SILICATE MINERALS; VOLCANIC ROCKS;

METAMORPHIC ROCKS;

AMPHIBOLITE; BLUESCHIST; CONVERGENCE; ECLOGITE; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GONDWANA; GRANITOID; HIGH PRESSURE; LAURENTIA; LEAD; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NAPPE; ORDOVICIAN; PANGAEA; PROTOLITH; URANIUM;

ACATLAN COMPLEX; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA];

EID: 78951487726     PISSN: 00084077     EISSN: 14803313     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/E10-082     Document Type: Article

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