Late Archean and Early Proterozoic crustal evolution of the Mount Isa block, northwest Queensland, Australia

Geology

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 1095-1098

  McDonald, Graeme D ^a   Collerson, Kenneth D ^a   Kinny, Peter D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEODYMIUM;

CRUST FORMATIONS; CRUSTAL EVOLUTION; EVOLUTIONARY MODELS; GEOCHEMICAL SIGNATURES; GNEISS COMPLEXES; PALEOMAGNETIC DATA; SUBDUCTION ZONES; THERMAL EVENTS; GRANODIORITE;

GALLIUM;

ARCHEAN; CRUSTAL EVOLUTION; CRYSTALLIZATION; GNEISS; GRANODIORITE; LITHOLOGY; PROTEROZOIC; PROTOLITH; TONALITE; TRONDHJEMITE; ARCHAEAN; MAGMATISM; SUBDUCTION; SUTURE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

AUSTRALIA; MOUNT ISA INLIER; NORTH AUSTRALIAN CRATON; QUEENSLAND; MOUNT ISA;

EID: 0031429905     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1997)025<1095:LAAEPC>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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