Evolution of the Guerrero composite terrane along the Mexican margin, from extensional fringing arc to contractional continental arc

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 123, Issue 9-10, 2011, Pages 1776-1797

  Centeno García, Elena ^a   Busby, Cathy ^b   Busby, Michael ^b   Gehrels, George ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c The University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCRETIONARY COMPLEX; ARC MAGMATISM; CALIFORNIA; COMPLEX FORMS; COMPRESSIONAL; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CONVERGENT MARGIN; CRUSTAL GROWTH; DETRITAL ZIRCON; EARLY CRETACEOUS; ISLAND ARC; JURASSIC; LATTER MECHANISM; MAGMATISMS; ME-XICO; MESOZOIC ROCKS; OCEAN BASINS; SUBDUCTION ZONES; TIME FRAME; TURONIAN; UPPER PLATE; VOLCANIC ARC; VOLCANICLASTICS;

GEOCHRONOLOGY; VOLCANIC ROCKS; VOLCANOES; ZIRCON;

TECTONICS;

ACCRETION; CONTINENTAL ARC; CONVERGENT MARGIN; ISLAND ARC; MAGMATISM; SUBDUCTION ZONE; SUBSIDENCE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONOSTRATIGRAPHY; TERRANE; ZIRCON;

GUERRERO TERRANE; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA];

EID: 80051594757     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 19432674     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B30057.1     Document Type: Article

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