Provenance and tectonic implications of Palaeoproterozoic (c. 1740 Ma) quartz porphyry clasts in the basal old red sandstone (lilljeborgfjellet conglomerate formation) of northwestern Svalbard's caledonides

Geological Magazine

Volumn 135, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 755-768

  Hellman, F J ^a   Gee, D G ^b   Gjelsvik, T ^c   Tebenkov, A M ^d  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c Norsk Polarintitutt   (Norway)

^d Polar Mar Geol Research Expedition   (Russian Federation)

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EID: 0000543154     PISSN: 00167568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0016756898001757     Document Type: Article

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