Late Cretaceous arc development on the SW margin of the Caribbean Plate: Insights from the Golfito, Costa Rica, and Azuero, Panama, complexes

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2010, Pages

  Buchs, David M ^a   Arculus, Richard J ^a   Baumgartner, Peter O ^b   Baumgartner Mora, Claudia ^b   Ulianov, Alexey ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Arc initiation; Caribbean; Central America; Oceanic plateau; Protoarc; Volcanic arc

Indexed keywords

GEOCHEMISTRY; ROCKS; STRATIGRAPHY; TECTONICS;

ARC INITIATION; CARIBBEAN; CENTRAL AMERICA; OCEANIC PLATEAUX; PROTOARC; VOLCANIC ARC;

IGNEOUS ROCKS;

CARIBBEAN PLATE; COAST; CONTINENTAL CRUST; CRETACEOUS; CRUSTAL THICKENING; EOCENE; FOREARC BASIN; ISLAND ARC; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; PETROLOGY; PLATEAU; SEAMOUNT; SUBDUCTION; TECTONOSTRATIGRAPHY;

AZUERO PENINSULA; COSTA RICA; PANAMA [CENTRAL AMERICA];

CONIACIAN;

EID: 79954622883     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GC002901     Document Type: Article

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