Tectono-thermal evolution of deep crust in a Mesoproterozoic continental collision setting: The Manicouagan example

Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 37, Issue 2-3, 2000, Pages 325-340

  Indares, Aphrodite ^a   Dunning, Greg ^a   Cox, Richard ^a  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL COLLISION; CRUSTAL EVOLUTION; GRENVILLIAN OROGENY; IMBRICATION; METAMORPHIC ROCK; PROTEROZOIC; TECTONIC SETTING; THERMAL EVOLUTION;

CANADA;

EID: 0033858035     PISSN: 00084077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/e99-069     Document Type: Article

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