Sudbury-type breccias in the Huronian Gowganda Formation near Whitefish Falls, Ontario: Products of diabase intrusion into incompletely consolidated sediments?

Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 1435-1448

  Shaw, C S J ^a   Young, G M ^b   Fedo, C M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÄT BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^c GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRECCIA; DEFORMATION; MAGMA; MUD; PROTEROZOIC; UNCONSOLIDATED MEDIUM;

CANADA; ONTARIO; WHITEFISH FALLS;

EID: 0033505844     PISSN: 00084077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/e99-057     Document Type: Article

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