Uplift structure of the southern Kapuskasing zone from 2.45 Ga dike swarm displacement

Geology

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 67-70

  Halls, Henry C ^a   Zhang, Baoxing ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FELDSPAR; LAKES; LEVEES; MAGNETIC POLARITY; MAGNETITE;

CRUSTAL UPLIFT; DIKE SWARMS; EROSION LEVEL; GRAVITY AND MAGNETIC ANOMALIES; LAKE SUPERIOR; PROTEROZOIC; REGIONAL VARIATION; STRUCTURAL TRENDS;

HYDRAULIC STRUCTURES;

ARCHEAN; CRATON; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DIKE SWARM; DISPLACEMENT; GRAVITY ANOMALY; MAGNETIC ANOMALY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; UPLIFT; CRUSTAL UPLIFT; DYKE SWARM; TECTONICS;

CANADA; KAPUSKASING ZONE; ONTARIO [CANADA]; SUPERIOR PROVINCE; ONTARIO;

EID: 0031972307     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1998)026<0067:USOTSK>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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