Taconian orogeny in the New England Appalachians: Collision between Laurentia and the Shelburne Falls arc

Geology

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 215-218

  Karabinos, Paul ^a   Samson, Scott D ^b   Hepburn, J Christopher ^c   Stoll, Heather M ^d  

^a WILLIAMS COLLEGE   (United States)

^b SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^d PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL GEOCHEMISTRY; BINARY ALLOYS; SILICATE MINERALS; TECTONICS; URANIUM ALLOYS; ZIRCON;

CRUSTAL SHORTENING; EARLY ORDOVICIAN; GEOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; PLATE CONVERGENCE; SINGLE GRAINS; SUBDUCTION ZONES; TECTONIC HISTORY; TECTONIC MODELS;

LEAD ALLOYS;

CONTINENTAL COLLISION; CRUSTAL SHORTENING; GEOCHEMISTRY; LAURENTIA; METAMORPHISM; ORDOVICIAN; PLATE CONVERGENCE; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TACONIC OROGENY; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; COLLISION; TACONIAN OROGENY;

APPALACHIANS; ENGLAND; HAMPSHIRE; MASSACHUSETTS; NEW ENGLAND; NEW HAMPSHIRE; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES; USA;

EID: 0031819463     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1998)026<0215:TOITNE>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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