Mid-crustal deformation at the southern flank of the Sudbury Basin, central Ontario, Canada

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 109, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 841-854

  Riller, Ulrich ^a,b   Schwerdtner, W M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; PONDING;

AMPHIBOLITE-FACIES METAMORPHISM; CRUSTAL DEFORMATIONS; GRANITOID ROCKS; METAVOLCANIC ROCKS; NON-CYLINDRICAL; ONTARIO , CANADA; STRUCTURAL EVIDENCE; SUDBURY BASINS; PALEOPROTEROZOIC;

ROCKS; DEFORMATION;

AMPHIBOLITE FACIES; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; CURVATURE; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; EMPLACEMENT; GREENSCHIST FACIES; METAMORPHISM; METAVOLCANIC ROCK; NORITE; OVERTURN; DEFORMATION; EMPLACEMENT MECHANISM; PROTEROZOIC; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

CANADA; CREIGHTON; ONTARIO [CANADA]; SASKATCHEWAN; SUDBURY BASIN; ONTARIO;

EID: 0030831459     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0016-7606(1997)109<0841:MCDATS>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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