Three generations of anorthosite-mangerite-charnockite-granite (AMCG) magmatism, contact metamorphism and tectonism in the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region of the Grenville Province, Canada

Precambrian Research

Volumn 79, Issue 3-4, 1996, Pages 327-346

  Higgins, Michael D ^a   Van Breemen, Otto ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À CHICOUTIMI   (Canada)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANORTHOSITE; CHARNOCKITE; CONTACT METAMORPHISM; GRANITE; MAGMATISM; MANGERITE; PROTEROZOIC;

CANADA, QUEBEC, LAC SAINT JEAN; CANADA, QUEBEC, SAGUENAY;

EID: 0030512019     PISSN: 03019268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0301-9268(95)00102-6     Document Type: Article

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