Mylonite to megabreccia: Tracking fault events within a transcurrent terrane boundary in Nova Scotia, Canada

Geology

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 411-414

  Gibbons, Wes ^a   Doig, Ronald ^b   Gordon, Terence ^c   Murphy, Brendan ^d   Reynolds, Peter ^e   White, Joseph Clancy ^f  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^d ST FRANCIS XAVIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINARY ALLOYS; DOCKING; LEAD ALLOYS; SILICATE MINERALS; URANIUM ALLOYS; ZIRCON;

APPALACHIAN; BRITTLE DEFORMATION; FAULT EVENT; FAULT SYSTEM; LATE PALEOZOIC; NOVA SCOTIA; SUPERCONTINENTS; U-PB ZIRCON; DEVONIANS; MYLONITES;

SEDIMENTARY ROCKS;

DEVONIAN; FAULT; MEGABRECCIA; MYLONITE; TERRANE; TRACKING; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; FAULTING; PALAEOGEOGRAPHY; PANGAEA; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TERRANE BOUNDARY;

CANADA; NOVA SCOTIA; CLARKE HEAD;

EID: 0029770060     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1996)024<0411:MTMTFE>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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