High-grade metamorphism in the Western Cape Breton Highlands, Nova Scotia, and its relation to tectonism

Canadian Mineralogist

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1249-1268

  Currie, Kenneth L ^a   Lynch, Gregory ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cape Breton Highlands; Geothermobarometry; Metamorphism; Nova Scotia; Tectonics

Indexed keywords

GEOTHERMOBAROMETRY; METAMORPHISM; TECTONICS;

CANADA, NOVA SCOTIA;

EID: 0031400209     PISSN: 00084476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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