Kyanite in the western Superior Province of Ontario: Implications for Archean accretionary tectonics

Canadian Mineralogist

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 359-373

  Pan, Yuanming ^a   Fleet, Michael E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Accretionary tectonics; Archean; Barrovian metamorphism; Kyanite; Occurrences; Ontario; Western Superior Province

Indexed keywords

ACCRETION; ARCHEAN; KYANITE; MASSIVE SULFIDE; METAMORPHISM; TECTONICS;

CANADA;

EID: 0032730537     PISSN: 00084476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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