Mesozoic metamorphic and middle to late Tertiary magmatic events on Magdalena and Santa Margarita Islands, Baja California Sur, Mexico: implications for the tectonic evolution of the Baja California continental borderland

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 110, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 1094-1104

  Bonini, Jennifer A ^a   Baldwin, Suzanne L ^a  

^a The University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDRAULIC STRUCTURES; MAGNESITE; MICA; SILICATE MINERALS; TECTONICS; VOLCANIC ROCKS;

BAJA CALIFORNIA; CONVERGENT MARGIN; EARLY CRETACEOUS; EAST PACIFIC RISE; PARTIAL MELTING; SERPENTINIZED ULTRAMAFIC ROCKS; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; THERMAL EVOLUTION;

METAMORPHIC ROCKS;

MESOZOIC; TERTIARY;

MEXICO;

EID: 84879883698     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0016-7606(1998)110<1094:MMAMTL>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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