The Motagua suture zone in Guatemala: Field-trip guidebook of the I.G.C.P.-433 workshop and 2nd Italian-Latin American geological meeting "in memory of Gabriel dengo" january 2002

Ofioliti

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 47-72

  Giunta, Giuseppe ^a   Beccaluva, Luigi ^b   Coltorti, Massimo ^b   Cutrupia, Daniela ^a   Dengo, Carlos ^c   Harlow, George E ^d   Mota, Byron ^e   Padoa, Elisa ^f   Rosenfeld, Joshua ^d   Siena, Franca ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^c EXXONMOBIL UPSTREAM RESEARCH COMPANY   (United States)

^d Am Mus Nat Hystory ^*  (United States)

^e Cementos Progreso SA and Societad Geologica de Guatemala   (Guatemala)

^f UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

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