A thermal gradient at constant pressure: Implications for low- to medium-pressure metamorphism in a compressional tectonic setting, flin flon and kisseynew domains, trans-hudson orogen, central Canada

Canadian Mineralogist

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1117-1136

  Kraus, Jürgen ^a   Menard, Thomas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Flin Flon Domain; Geothermobarometry; Granite intrusions; Heat advection; Kisseynew Domain; Manitoba; Metamorphic zones; Metamorphism; P T t path; Polyphase deformation; Snow Lake; Thermal anomaly; Trans Hudson Orogen

Indexed keywords

GEOTHERMOBAROMETRY; METAMORPHISM; P-T-T PATH;

CANADA;

EID: 0031396724     PISSN: 00084476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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