Formation of an Archean tectonic melange in the Schreiber-Hemlo greenstone belt, Superior Province, Canada: Implications for Archean subduction-accretion process

Tectonics

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 733-755

  Polat, Ali ^a,b   Kerrich, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCRETION; ARCHEAN; GREENSTONE BELT; MELANGE; SUBDUCTION; TECTONICS;

CANADA; SUPERIOR PROVINCE;

DEFORMATION; FAULTING; LEVEES; STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS; TECTONICS;

ACCRETION PROCESS; ACCRETIONARY COMPLEX; BROKEN FORMATION; GEOCHEMICAL SIGNATURES; GREENSTONE BELTS; MAGMA EMPLACEMENT; STRIKE SLIP FAULTING; TRANSPRESSIONAL DEFORMATION;

FAULT SLIPS;

EID: 0033404070     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999TC900032     Document Type: Article

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