The Loch Maree Group: Palaeoproterozoic subduction-accretion complex in the Lewisian of NW Scotland

Precambrian Research

Volumn 105, Issue 2-4, 2001, Pages 205-226

  Park, R Graham ^a   Tarney, John ^b   Connelly, James N ^c  

^a KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Gairloch; Geochemistry; Mafic volcanics; Palaeoproterozoic; Subduction accretion; Tectonic models

Indexed keywords

CARBONIC ACID DERIVATIVE; LEAD; URANIUM; ZIRCONIUM;

ACCRETION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GNEISS; LEWISIAN; PROTEROZOIC; SUBDUCTION; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

AGE DETERMINATION; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHRONOLOGY; CRYSTALLIZATION; GEOLOGY; LAKE; ROCK; SEDIMENT; TOPOGRAPHY; UNITED KINGDOM;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0035977546     PISSN: 03019268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-9268(00)00112-1     Document Type: Article

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