Geological evolution of the Manitouwadge greenstone belt and Wawa-Quetico subprovince boundary, superior province, Ontario, constrained by U-Pb zircon dates of supracrustal and plutonic rocks

Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 945-966

  Zaleski, Eva ^a   Van Breemen, Otto ^a   Peterson, Virginia L ^b  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^b WESTERN CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHEAN; GREENSTONE BELT; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; URANIUM-LEAD DATING;

CANADA; ONTARIO; SUPERIOR PROVINCE;

EID: 0033491884     PISSN: 00084077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/e99-016     Document Type: Article

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