Lower cretaceous strata of the Sonora Bisbee Basin: A record of the tectonomagmatic evolution of northwestern Mexico

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 124, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 532-548

  Peryam, Thomas C ^a   Lawton, Timothy F ^a   Amato, Jeffrey M ^a   González León, Carlos M ^b   Mauel, David J ^a  

^a NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE GROUPS; ANGULAR UNCONFORMITY; EARLY CRETACEOUS; FLUVIAL DEPOSITS; JURASSIC; LOWER CRETACEOUS; ME-XICO; MESOZOIC; MIDDLE JURASSIC; NORTH AMERICAN; PALEOZOIC; PERMIAN; PROTEROZOIC; REGIONAL TECTONICS; SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA; STUDY AREAS; TECTONOMAGMATIC EVOLUTION; TRIASSIC; U-PB ZIRCON AGES; VOLCANIC ARC;

AGING OF MATERIALS; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GRANITE; LEAD; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; STRATIGRAPHY; ZIRCON;

TECTONICS;

CONTINENTAL ARC; CRETACEOUS; DETRITAL DEPOSIT; GEOCHRONOLOGY; JURASSIC-CRETACEOUS BOUNDARY; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; MAGMATISM; MESOZOIC; PALEOZOIC; PERMIAN-TRIASSIC BOUNDARY; PROTEROZOIC; RHYOLITE; SANDSTONE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; UNCONFORMITY; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA];

EID: 84863517372     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 19432674     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B30456.1     Document Type: Article

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