Plate tectonic paleoceanographic hypothesis for Cretaceous source rocks and cherts of northern South America

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 332, Issue , 1999, Pages 191-202

  Villamil, Tomas ^a   Arango, Claudia ^b   Hay, William W ^c  

^a Phillips Research Center 224GB   (United States)

^b MARATHON OIL COMPANY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GRADING; LIME; ORGANIC CARBON; PETROLEUM GEOLOGY; SEA LEVEL; SHALE; TECTONICS;

CARBONATE PLATFORMS; CRETACEOUS SOURCE ROCK; EQUATORIAL UPWELLING; FORAMINIFERAL LIMESTONES; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; ORGANIC-RICH SHALES; SHALLOW WATER CARBONATES; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

DEPOSITION;

ALBIAN; CARBONATE PLATFORM; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; EKMAN TRANSPORT; FACIES; FORAMINIFERA; JURASSIC-CRETACEOUS BOUNDARY; ORGANIC CARBON; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PASSIVE MARGIN; PLATE TECTONICS; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; UPWELLING;

COLOMBIA; VENEZUELA;

EID: 84870934750     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2332-9.191     Document Type: Article

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