Syn-Acadian emplacement model for the South Mountain batholith, Meguma Terrane, Nova Scotia: Magnetic fabric and structural analyses

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 109, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 1279-1293

  Benn, Keith ^a   Horne, Richard J ^b   Kontak, Daniel J ^b   Pignotta, Geoffrey S ^a   Evans, Neil G ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b NOVA SCOTIA DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOTITE; DEFORMATION; FELDSPAR; IGNEOUS ROCKS; LANDFORMS; MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; MAGNETISM; MICA; MINERAL RESOURCES; SHEARING;

ANISOTROPY OF MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; APPALACHIAN OROGEN; MAGNETIC FABRICS; MAGNETIC FOLIATION; MAGNETIC LINEATIONS; REGIONAL FOLDS; STRUCTURAL EVOLUTION; TECTONIC DEFORMATIONS;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

BATHOLITH; BIOTITE; COMPOSITE; CRYSTALLIZATION; DEVONIAN; LINEATION; MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; MEGACRYST; MINERAL DEPOSIT; PLUTON; MAGNETIC FABRIC; STRUCTURAL ANALYSES;

CANADA; MEGUMA TERRANE; NOVA SCOTIA; SOUTH MOUNTAIN;

EID: 0031399510     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0016-7606(1997)109<1279:SAEMFT>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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