The Early-Middle Miocene subduction complex of the Louisiade Archipelago, southern margin of the Woodlark Rift

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 15, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 4024-4046

  Webb, Laura E ^a   Baldwin, Suzanne L ^b   Fitzgerald, Paul G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^b SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Australian Pacific plate boundary; Calvados Schist; Louisiade Archipelago; Woodlark Basin; Woodlark Rift

Indexed keywords

CREEP; DEFORMATION; MICA; SILICATE MINERALS; STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS;

CALVADOS SCHIST; LOUISIADE ARCHIPELAGO; PACIFIC PLATES; WOODLARK BASIN; WOODLARK RIFT;

TECTONICS;

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; MIOCENE; PLATE BOUNDARY; PLATE TECTONICS; SCHIST; SUBDUCTION; THERMOCHRONOLOGY; TRANSPRESSION;

CORAL SEA; LOUISIADE ARCHIPELAGO; MILNE BAY; NEW GUINEA; PACIFIC OCEAN; SOLOMON SEA; WOODLARK BASIN; WOODLARK RIFT;

EID: 84939434123     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GC005500     Document Type: Article

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