Closing the ocean between the Precordillera terrane and Chilenia: Early Devonian ophiolite emplacement and deformation in the southwest Precordillera

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 336, Issue , 1999, Pages 115-138

  Davis, J Steven ^a,d   Roeske, Sarah M ^a   McClelland, William C ^b   Snee, Lawrence W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^c DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

^d EXXONMOBIL UPSTREAM RESEARCH COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAULTING; OCEANOGRAPHY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

CARBONIFEROUS ROCKS; CONTINENTAL CRUSTS; GEOLOGIC MAPPING; GRANULITE FACIES; METASEDIMENTARY ROCKS; SERPENTINIZED PERIDOTITES; SUBDUCTION ZONES; ULTRAMAFIC CUMULATE;

ROCKS;

CARBONIFEROUS; CORDILLERA; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; DEVONIAN; EMPLACEMENT; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; MAFIC ROCK; METASEDIMENTARY ROCK; OPHIOLITE; TERRANE; ULTRAMAFIC ROCK;

ARGENTINA;

EID: 84870939945     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2336-1.115     Document Type: Article

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