Documentation of a 1450 Ma contractional orogeny preserved between the 1850 Ma Sudbury impact structure and the 1 Ga Grenville orogenic front, Ontario

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 109, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 268-279

  Fueten, Frank ^a   Redmond, Dan J ^a  

^a BROCK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOLOGY;

AXIS FABRICS; BRITTLE DEFORMATION; DEFORMATION FEATURE; GRAIN SHAPES; IMPACT EVENTS; IMPACT STRUCTURES; OROGENIC EVENTS; STRUCTURAL MAPPING; ONTARIO; PROTEROZOIC;

DEFORMATION;

BRITTLE DEFORMATION; CONTRACTION; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; DISPLACEMENT; GRANITE; GRENVILLIAN OROGENY; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; PROTEROZOIC; QUARTZ; CONTRACTIONAL OROGENY; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

CANADA; HURON; LONG LAKE; NEW YORK [UNITED STATES]; ONTARIO [CANADA]; SUDBURY; UNITED STATES; ONTARIO;

EID: 0030744949     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0016-7606(1997)109<0268:DOAMCO>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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