Thermal evolution and interaction between impact melt sheet and footwall: A genetic model for the contact sublayer of the Sudbury Igneous Complex, Canada

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 107, Issue 8, 2002, Pages

  Prevec, Stephen A ^a   Cawthorn, R Grant ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Convection; Impact melting; Layered intrusions; Sulphides; Thermal modeling

Indexed keywords

FOOTWALL; IMPACT STRUCTURE; LAYERED INTRUSION; MELTING; SULFIDE; THERMAL EVOLUTION;

CANADA; ONTARIO; SUDBURY;

EID: 0038476992     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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