Extensional exhumation of a high-pressure granulite terrane in Payer Land, Greenland Caledonides: Structural, petrologic, and geochronologic evidence from metapelites

Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 1169-1187

  Gilotti, Jane A ^a   Elvevold, Synnøve ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FELDSPAR; GARNETS; GEOCHRONOLOGY; KYANITE; LITHOLOGY; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; MONAZITE; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS;

ULTRAMAFIC;

PETROLOGY;

EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; GNEISS; GRANULITE FACIES; HIGH PRESSURE; METAMORPHISM; METAPELITE; PETROLOGY; PROTEROZOIC;

GREENLAND;

EID: 0036025725     PISSN: 00084077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/e02-019     Document Type: Article

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