BARBA , D.

New fieldwork, radiometric and whole-rock chemical data permit the reconstruction of the main eruptive stages of the Chimborazo compound volcano, the highest summit of the Northern Andes. Chimborazo is composed of three successive edifices. The Basal Edifice (CH-I) was active from ~ 120 to 60 ka and resulted in a large, mostly effusive edifice...

Along the Western Cordillera of Ecuador, fault-bounded ophiolites derived from the Late Cretaceous Caribbean Large Igneous Province (CLIP) have provided key petrotectonic indicators that outline the nature and the mechanism of continental growth in this region. However, most of the forearc basement across Western Ecuador is buried under...

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