Structural denudation of Silurian-Devonian high-grade metamorphic rocks and postorogenic detachment faulting in the Maritimes Basin, Northern Nova Scotia

Bulletin of the Geological Survey of Canada

Volumn , Issue 558, 2001, Pages 1-63

  Lynch, G ^a  

^a SHELL GLOBAL SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL B V   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

DENUDATION; DETACHMENT FAULT; DEVONIAN; METAMORPHISM; SILURIAN; TECTONIC SETTING;

CANADA;

EID: 0035053970     PISSN: 00687626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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