Archean terrane docking: Upper crust collision tectonics, Abitibi greenstone belt, Quebec, Canada

Tectonophysics

Volumn 265, Issue 1-2 SPEC. ISS., 1996, Pages 127-150

  Mueller, W U ^a   Daigneault, R ^a   Mortensen, J K ^b   Chown, E H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À CHICOUTIMI   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Archean evolution; Collision tectonics; Paleogeographic reconstruction; Sedimentology; Strike slip basin; Structure; Supracrustal rocks

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEAN; COLLISION; TECTONICS; TERRANE;

CANADA, QUEBEC, ABITIBI GREENSTONE BELT;

EID: 0030441732     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0040-1951(96)00149-7     Document Type: Article

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