Style and chronology of the Late Cretaceous shortening in the Zihuatanejo area (southwestern Mexico): Implications for the timing of the Mexican Laramide deformation

Geosphere

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1469-1479

  Martini, Michelangelo ^a   Ferrari, Luca ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b CENTRO DE GEOCIENCIAS   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCRETION; BASIN EVOLUTION; CARIBBEAN PLATE; CHRONOLOGY; CONTINENTAL ARC; CONTINENTAL COLLISION; CRETACEOUS; DEFORMATION; FOLD AND THRUST BELT; INFILL; LARAMIDE OROGENY; PIGGYBACK BASIN; PLATE CONVERGENCE; REGIONAL GEOLOGY; SUBDUCTION ZONE; SUTURE ZONE; TECTONIC SETTING; TERRANE;

GUERRERO; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; PACIFIC COAST [MEXICO]; PACIFIC COAST [NORTH AMERICA]; ZIHUATANEJO;

EID: 84858759424     PISSN: 1553-040     EISSN: 1553040X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/GES00743.1     Document Type: Article

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