Deformation features and critical field relationships of early Archaean rocks, Akilia, southwest Greenland

Precambrian Research

Volumn 126, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 259-271

  Whitehouse, Martin J ^a   Fedo, Christopher M ^b  

^a SWEDISH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Sweden)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Archaean; Deformation; Godth bsfjord; Greenland; Protoliths; Relative age

Indexed keywords

APATITE; CARBON; GRAPHITE; ISOTOPE; SILICON DIOXIDE;

ARCHEAN; DEFORMATION; LITHOLOGY; METAMORPHISM; PROTOLITH; PYROXENE; QUARTZ;

CHRONOLOGY; CONFERENCE PAPER; GEOGRAPHY; GEOLOGY; GREENLAND; ROCK;

AKILIA; ARCTIC; GODTHABSFJORD; GREENLAND;

EID: 0347400427     PISSN: 03019268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-9268(03)00098-6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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