Block and shear-zone architecture of the Minnesota River Valley subprovince: Implications for late Archean accretionary tectonics

Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 831-847

  Southwick, D L ^a   Chandler, Val W ^a  

^a Minnesota Geological Survey   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCRETION; ARCHAEAN; CONTINENTAL CRUST; SHEAR ZONE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

USA, MINNESOTA, MINNESOTA RIVER VALLEY SUBPROVINCE;

EID: 0030475309     PISSN: 00084077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/e96-063     Document Type: Article

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