Origin of the Aves ridge and Dutch-Venezuelan Antilles: Interaction of the cretaceous 'Great Arc' and Caribbean-Colombian oceanic plateau?

Journal of the Geological Society

Volumn 168, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 333-347

  Neill, Iain ^a   Kerr, Andrew C ^a   Hastie, Alan R ^b   Stanek, Klaus Peter ^c   Millar, Ian L ^d  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b KINGSTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c TU BERGAKADEMIE FREIBERG   (Germany)

^d NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASALTIC ANDESITE; CARIBBEAN SEA; COLOMBIANS; CRUSTAL SOURCES; DUKE UNIVERSITY; ENRICHED MANTLE; GRANITOIDS; ISLAND ARC; LIGHT RARE EARTH ELEMENTS; MANTLE PLUME; OCEANIC PLATEAUX; PARTIAL MELTING; SOUTH AMERICA; U-PB ZIRCON;

GEOCHEMISTRY; LEAD; MELTING; RARE EARTH ELEMENTS; SILICATE MINERALS; TRACE ELEMENTS;

GEOCHRONOLOGY;

CRETACEOUS; EMPLACEMENT; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GRANITOID; IGNEOUS GEOCHEMISTRY; OCEANIC CRUST; SUBDUCTION; SUBMARINE PLATEAU; SUBMARINE RIDGE; TECTONIC SETTING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN SEA;

AVES;

EID: 79952254450     PISSN: 00167649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/0016-76492010-067     Document Type: Article

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