Arc and slab-failure magmatism in cordilleran batholiths I – The cretaceous coastal batholith of peru and its role in South American orogenesis and hemispheric subduction flip

Geoscience Canada

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 255-282

  Hildebrand, Robert S ^a   Whalen, Joseph B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUILDINGS; CALCIUM; FACINGS; FERTILIZERS; GEOCHRONOLOGY; ROCKS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; VOLCANIC ROCKS;

DYKE EMPLACEMENT; LATE CRETACEOUS; METAMORPHIC BASEMENTS; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; SILICICLASTIC CARBONATES; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL; TEMPORAL RELATION; VOLCANICLASTICS;

TECTONICS;

BATHOLITH; CRETACEOUS; DEFORMATION; MAGMATISM; OROGENY; ROCK PROPERTY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SUBDUCTION;

CORDILLERA OCCIDENTAL [PERU]; PERU; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 84911472691     PISSN: 03150941     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.12789/geocanj.2014.41.047     Document Type: Article

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