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The Early Cretaceous San Juan plutonic suite, Ecuador; a magma chamber in an oceanic plateau?

The Early Cretaceous San Juan plutonic suite, Ecuador; a magma chamber in an oceanic plateau?

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The Early Cretaceous San Juan plutonic suite, Ecuador; a magma chamber in an oceanic plateau?

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The Early Cretaceous San Juan plutonic suite, Ecuador; a magma chamber in an oceanic plateau?

Publisher

Ottawa, Canada: National Research Council of Canada

Journal title

Canadian journal of earth sciences, 2004-10, Vol.41 (10), p.1237-1258

Language

English

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Ottawa, Canada: National Research Council of Canada

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Contents

Sections through an oceanic plateau are preserved in tectonic slices in the Western Cordillera of Ecuador (South America). The San Juan section is a sequence of mafic-ultramafic cumulates. To establish that these plutonic rocks formed in an oceanic plateau setting, we have developed criteria that discriminate intrusions of oceanic plateaus from tho...

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The Early Cretaceous San Juan plutonic suite, Ecuador; a magma chamber in an oceanic plateau?

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TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_743516207

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_743516207

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ISSN

0008-4077

E-ISSN

1480-3313

DOI

10.1139/e04-060

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