Magmatism and metamorphism in a Grenvillian fragment: U-Pb and 40Ar/39Ar ages from the Blair River Complex, northern Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 108, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 127-140

  Miller, Brent V ^a   Dunning, Gregory R ^b   Barr, Sandra M ^c   Raeside, Robert P ^c   Jamieson, Rebecca A ^a   Reynolds, Peter H ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^c ACADIA UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINARY ALLOYS; BUILDINGS; COOLING; IGNEOUS ROCKS; LEAD ALLOYS; MICA; OXIDE MINERALS; RIVERS; SILICATE MINERALS; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; ZIRCON; URANIUM ALLOYS;

AMPHIBOLITE FACIES; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CRYSTALLIZATION AGE; DATA SUPPORT; GRANULITE FACIES; METAMORPHIC CONDITIONS; NEWFOUNDLANDS; THERMAL ACTIVITY; LAURENTIAN; MAGMATISMS; NOVA SCOTIA;

URANIUM ALLOYS; RIVERS;

ARGON-ARGON DATING; CRYSTALLIZATION; DIORITE; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GRENVILLIAN OROGENY; HORNBLENDE; MAGMATISM; METAMORPHISM; ORTHOGNEISS; PROTOLITH; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ARGON-40/ARGON-39 DATING; BLAIR RIVER COMPLEX; GRENVILLIAN; URANIUM/LEAD DATING;

CANADA; CAPE BRETON ISLAND; HUMBER RIVER [ENGLAND]; HUMBER RIVER [ONTARIO]; NEWFOUNDLAND; NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR; NOVA SCOTIA; ONTARIO [CANADA]; RED RIVER [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0029752222     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0016-7606(1996)108<0127:MAMIAG>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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