Probing the depths of Oliverian magmas: Implications for Paleozoic tectonics'in the northeastern United States

Geology

Volumn 27, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 803-806

  Kohn, Matthew J ^a,b   Spear, Frank ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b Research Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MINERALS;

NEW HAMPSHIRE; PALEOZOIC; RE-EQUILIBRATION; VOLCANICS;

TECTONICS;

ACADIAN OROGENY; ALLEGHANIAN OROGENY; DEPTH DETERMINATION; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; METAMORPHISM; MINERALOGY; PALEOZOIC; TECTONIC SETTING; EXTRUSION; GNEISS; IGNEOUS INTRUSION; OROGENY;

NEW HAMPSHIRE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033377999     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1999)027<0803:PTDOOM>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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