Oligocene-Miocene back-thrusting in southern Mexico linked to the rapid subduction erosion of a large forearc block
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Keppie, D Fraser
Hynes, A J
Lee, James K W
Norman, Marc
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American Geophysical Union
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Both the timing and mechanism for the removal of a ∼150-250 km wide forearc block from southern Mexico during the Cenozoic are controversial. Principal competing hypotheses are (1) removal due to sinistral strike-slip shear, in which slow, diachronous r
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