Geologic reconnaissance and Miocene age of volcanism and associated fauna from sediments of Bahía de los Angeles, Baja California, central Gulf of California

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 334, Issue , 2000, Pages 111-121

  Delgado Argote, Luis A ^a   López Martínez, Margarita ^a   Del Carmen Perrilliat, María ^b  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN CIENTÍFICA Y DE EDUCACIÓN SUPERIOR DE ENSENADA   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASALT; BUILDINGS; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; MICA; PLASTIC FLOW; STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS;

CRYSTALLINE BASEMENT; EXTENSIONAL DEFORMATION; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; GULF OF CALIFORNIA; MESOZOIC-PALEOZOIC; PRIMARY STRUCTURES; PYROCLASTIC FLOWS; QUATERNARY SEQUENCE;

SEDIMENTS;

AGGLOMERATION; ANDESITE; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; BIOTITE; FISSURE; MIOCENE; PYROCLASTIC DEPOSIT; PYROCLASTIC FLOW; SANDSTONE; SHORELINE CHANGE; STROMATOLITE; VOLCANISM;

BAJA CALIFORNIA [(STT) MEXICO]; EL SALVADOR [CENTRAL AMERICA]; GULF OF CALIFORNIA; LA LIBERTAD [EL SALVADOR]; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84870908900     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2334-5.111     Document Type: Article

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