Dome-and-keel provinces formed during Paleoproterozoic orogenic collapse - Core complexes, diapirs, or neither?: Examples from the Quadrilátero Ferrífero and the Penokean orogen

Geology

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 415-418

  Marshak, Stephen ^a   Tinkham, Douglas ^a   Alkmim, Fernando ^b   Brueckner, Hannes ^c,d   Bornhorst, Theodore ^e  

^a ILLINOIS STATE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF OURO PRETO   (Brazil)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^d International Research Institute for Climate and Society   (United States)

^e Michigan Technological University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUILDINGS; GEOCHRONOLOGY; SHEAR FLOW;

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DENSITY INVERSION; DETACHMENT FAULTING; EXTENSIONAL COLLAPSE; METAMORPHIC CORE COMPLEX; OROGENIC COLLAPSE; SUPRACRUSTAL ROCKS; VISCOSITY CONTRAST; CORE COMPLEX; PALEOPROTEROZOIC; SHEAR ZONE;

DOMES;

BASEMENT ROCK; DIAPIR; DOME; EMPLACEMENT; METAMORPHIC ROCK; PENOKEAN OROGENY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; SUPRACRUSTAL ROCK; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DOME AND KEEL STRUCTURE; METAMORPHIC CORE COMPLEX; PROTEROZOIC;

BRAZIL; MINAS GERAIS; QUADRILATERO FERRIFERO; MICHIGAN; PENOKEAN OROGEN; USA;

EID: 0030881222     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1997)025<0415:DAKPFD>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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