Evidence for multiphase deformation in the Archean basal Warrawoona Group in the Marble Bar area, East Pilbara, Western Australia

Precambrian Research

Volumn 88, Issue 1-4, 1998, Pages 53-66

  Van Haaften, W M ^a   White, S H ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Fold culmination; Lithotectonic complex; Marble Bar Greenstone Belt; Pilbara Block; Shear zone kinematics; Talga Talga Anticline; Warrawoona Group

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEAN; DEFORMATION; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0031851315     PISSN: 03019268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0301-9268(97)00063-6     Document Type: Article

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