Tectonic history of a Jurassic backarc-basin sequence (the Gran Cañon Formation, Cedros Island, Mexico), based on compositional modes of tuffaceous deposits

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 114, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 515-527

  Critelli, Salvatore ^a   Marsaglia, Kathleen M ^a   Busby, Cathy J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Backarc basins; Baja California; Jurassic; Magmatic arcs; Mexico; Provenance; Sandstone petrology; Volcanology

Indexed keywords

VOLCANICLASTIC DEPOSITS;

CATCHMENTS; PETROGRAPHY; SANDSTONE;

TECTONICS;

BACKARC BASIN; BASIN FILL; ISLAND ARC; JURASSIC; PETROLOGY; SANDSTONE; VOLCANICLASTIC DEPOSIT;

MEXICO;

EID: 84879883505     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0016-7606(2002)114<0515:THOAJB>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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