The Lithoprobe Abitibi-Grenville transect: Two billion years of crust formation and recycling in the Precambrian Shield of Canada

Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 37, Issue 2-3, 2000, Pages 459-476

  Ludden, John ^a   Hynes, Andrew ^b  

^a CRPG CNRS   (France)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCRETION; ARCHEAN; CRATON; CRUSTAL EVOLUTION; GRENVILLIAN OROGENY; LITHOPROBE; PRECAMBRIAN; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

CANADA;

EID: 0033859392     PISSN: 00084077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/e99-120     Document Type: Article

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