Role of plate kinematics and plate-slip-vector partitioning in continental magmatic arcs: Evidence from the Cordillera Blanca, Peru

Geology

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 827-830

  McNulty, Brendan A ^a   Farber, Daniel L ^b   Wallace, Glen S ^c   Lopez, Robert ^c   Palacios, Oscar ^d  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d INSTITUTO GEOLÓGICO MINERO Y METALÚRGICO   (Peru)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOCHRONOLOGY;

MAGMATIC ARCS; MAGMATIC-ARC EVOLUTIONS; MODERN ANALOGUES; PARALLEL COMPONENT; PLATE KINEMATICS; SINISTRAL SHEAR; STRIKE-SLIP COMPONENT; TENSION FRACTURES;

PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS);

ARC-CONTINENT COLLISION; CONVERGENT MARGIN; KINEMATICS; MAGMA; PLATE MOTION; PLATE TECTONICS; SUBDUCTION ZONE;

CORDILLERA BLANCA; PERU;

EID: 84879879419     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1998)026<0827:ROPKAP>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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