Pervasive melt migration from migmatites to leucogranite in the Shuswap metamorphic core complex, Canada: Control of regional deformation

Tectonophysics

Volumn 312, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 35-55

  Vanderhaeghe, Olivier ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Canadian Cordillera; Granites; Migmatites; Partial melting; Shuswap metamorphic core complex; Structural analyses

Indexed keywords

CORDILLERA; LEUCOGRANITE; MIGMATITE; REGIONAL METAMORPHISM; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TEXTURE;

CANADA;

EID: 0033385053     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(99)00171-7     Document Type: Article

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