The southeastern Churchill Province: Synthesis of a Paleoproterozoic transpressional orogen

Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 639-663

  Wardle, Richard J ^a   James, Donald T ^a   Scott, David J ^a   Hall, Jeremy ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GALLIUM; REFLECTION; REFRACTION; SEISMOLOGY; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); TECTONICS;

LITHOSPHERE; SINISTRAL TRANSPRESSION;

EARTH SCIENCES;

CONTINENTAL COLLISION; CRATON; LAURENTIA; LITHOPROBE; OROGENY; PROTEROZOIC; TECTONICS; TRANSPRESSION;

CANADA;

EID: 0035997177     PISSN: 00084077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/e02-004     Document Type: Article

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