Late Cretaceous-Miocene diachronous onset of back thrusting along the South Caribbean deformed belt and its importance for understanding processes of arc collision and crustal growth

Tectonics

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Kroehler, Margaret E ^a   Mann, Paul ^b   Escalona, Alejandro ^c   Christeson, Gail L ^b  

^a Noble Energy ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STAVANGER   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY;

AGE DATA; ARC-CONTINENT COLLISION; CLASTIC SEDIMENTS; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CRUSTAL GROWTH; DATA SETS; LATE CRETACEOUS; POLARITY REVERSAL; SEDIMENTARY COVERS; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; SEISMIC REFLECTION DATA; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; SOUTH AMERICA; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

SEDIMENTARY ROCKS;

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; ARC-CONTINENT COLLISION; BELT; CLASTIC SEDIMENT; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CRETACEOUS; LITHOLOGY; MAGNETIC REVERSAL; MIOCENE; SEDIMENTARY ROCK; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; THRUST;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; CARIBBEAN SEA; VENEZUELAN BASIN;

BEATA;

EID: 80755125338     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011TC002918     Document Type: Article

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