Lateral ramps as an aid to the unroofing of deep-crustal rocks: Seismic evidence from the Grenville province

Tectonics

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 343-360

  Hynes, Andrew ^a   Eaton, David ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; LITHOPROBE; TECTONIC RECONSTRUCTION; THRUST; UNROOFING;

CANADA;

EID: 0033026475     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1998TC900032     Document Type: Article

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