Palaeoproterozoic subduction-related and passive margin basalts in the Halls Creek Orogen, northwest Australia

Australian Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 679-690

  Shepprard, S ^a   Tyler, I M ^a   Griffin, T J ^a   Taylor, W R ^b  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Basalts; Biscay Formation; Geochemistry; Halls Creek Orogen; Palaeoproterozoic; Tickalara Metamorphics

Indexed keywords

BASALT; PASSIVE MARGIN; PETROGENESIS; PETROLOGY; SUBDUCTION;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0033377060     PISSN: 08120099     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-0952.1999.00737.x     Document Type: Article

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