The Cleaverville Group in the West Pilbara Coastal Granitoid-Greenstone Terrain of Western Australia: An example of a Mid-Archaean immature oceanic island-arc succession

Precambrian Research

Volumn 88, Issue 1-4, 1998, Pages 109-142

  Kiyokawa, Shoichi ^a   Taira, Asahiko ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Archean Granitoid Greenstone Terrain; Bimodel volcanism; Immature oceanic island arc; Volcanosedimentary cycle

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEAN; ISLAND ARC; STRATIGRAPHY; VOLCANOSEDIMENTARY SUCCESSION;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0031873288     PISSN: 03019268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0301-9268(97)00066-1     Document Type: Article

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