Exhumation of eclogites and blueschists in Northern Venezuela: Constraints from kinematic analysis of deformation structures

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 394, Issue , 2005, Pages 193-206

  Avé Lallemant, Hans G ^a   Sisson, Virginia B ^a  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Caribbean; High pressure metamorphism; Structural geology; Subduction; Tectonics

Indexed keywords

METAMORPHIC ROCKS; MICA; PETROLOGY; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); SILICATE MINERALS; TECTONICS;

CARIBBEAN; DEFORMATION STRUCTURE; HIGH PRESSURE METAMORPHISM; KINEMATIC ANALYSIS; LATE CRETACEOUS; PLATE BOUNDARIES; SUBDUCTION; SUBDUCTION ZONES;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

BLUESCHIST; BUOYANCY; CRETACEOUS; DEFORMATION; EXHUMATION; GRAPHITE; METAMORPHISM; SCHIST; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; SUBDUCTION ZONE;

CHILE; COASTAL CORDILLERA; VENEZUELA;

EID: 84874982697     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2394-9.193     Document Type: Article

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