High-pressure, high-temperature rocks from the base of thick continental crust: geology and age constraints from the Manicouagan Imbricate Zone, eastern Grenville Province

Tectonics

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 426-440

  Indares, Aphrodite ^a   Dunning, Greg ^a   Cox, Richard ^a   Gale, David ^a   Connelly, Jim ^b  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLISION ZONE; CONTINENTAL COLLISION; CONTINENTAL CRUST; METAMORPHISM; OROGENIC PROCESSES;

CANADA; GRENVILLE PROVINCE;

EID: 0031710810     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98TC00373     Document Type: Article

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