Late cretaceous subduction initiation on the eastern margin of the caribbean-colombian oceanic plateau: One great arc of the caribbean(?)

Geosphere

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 468-493

  Wright, James E ^a   Wyld, Sandra J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEDROCK; CONTINENTAL ARC; CRETACEOUS; DIKE; EROSION; GEODYNAMICS; IGNEOUS INTRUSION; PLATEAU; PLUTON; STRATIGRAPHY; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

ARUBA; BONAIRE; CURACAO; LEEWARD ISLANDS [LESSER ANTILLES]; NETHERLANDS ANTILLES;

AVES;

EID: 79960595157     PISSN: 1553-040     EISSN: 1553040X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/GES00577.1     Document Type: Article

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