Intra-oceanic subduction shaped the assembly of Cordilleran North America

Nature

Volumn 496, Issue 7443, 2013, Pages 50-56

  Sigloch, Karin ^a   Mihalynuk, Mitchell G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCRETION; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CRUSTAL MOVEMENT; ISLAND ARC; PACIFIC PLATE; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; SLAB; SUBDUCTION; TERRANE; TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CRETACEOUS; GEOGRAPHIC AND GEOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; GEOLOGY; INTRA OCEANIC SUBDUCTION; NORTH AMERICA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEA; TOMOGRAPHY;

CALIFORNIA; FARALLON ISLANDS; NORTH AMERICAN CORDILLERA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84875895446     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature12019     Document Type: Article

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