Review of Upper Paleozoic and Lower Mesozoic stratigraphy and depositional environments of central and west Mexico: Constraints on terrane analysis and paleogeography

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 393, Issue , 2005, Pages 233-258

  Centeno García, Elena ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Mexico; Paleozoic; Stratigraphy; Tectonic; Triassic

Indexed keywords

SEDIMENTOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY; TECTONICS; VOLCANOES;

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; CARBONIFEROUS AND PERMIAN; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; DIFFERENT DISTRIBUTIONS; GEOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; ME-XICO; PALEOZOIC; TRIASSIC;

BUILDINGS;

CONTINENTAL ARC; CONTINENTAL SHELF; CONTINENTAL SLOPE; DEFORMATION; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; FAUNA; FELSIC ROCK; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GONDWANA; MESOZOIC; OCEAN BASIN; OUTCROP; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PALEOZOIC; TECTONIC WEDGE; TERRANE;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA];

EID: 84874971943     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2393-0.233     Document Type: Article

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