Geology and tectonic evolution of the Archean North Pilbara Terrain, Pilbara Craton, Western Australia

Economic Geology

Volumn 97, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 695-732

  Van Kranendonk, Martin J ^a   Hickman, Arthur H ^a   Smithes, R Hugh ^a   Nelson, David R ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLUTONISM;

BASALT; GEOCHEMISTRY; ISOTOPES; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; STRATIGRAPHY; TECTONICS;

GEOLOGY;

ARCHEAN; BANDED IRON FORMATION; BASIN EVOLUTION; CRATON; CRUSTAL EVOLUTION; DEFORMATION; MINERALIZATION; PLATE TECTONICS; PLUTONISM; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TERRANE; VOLCANISM;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0036659793     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gsecongeo.97.4.695     Document Type: Article

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