Early Archean to Mesoproterozoic evolution of the Wyoming Province: Archean origins to modern lithospheric architecture

Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1357-1374

  Chamberlain, Kevin R ^a   Frost, Carol D ^a   Frost, B Ronald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ANALYSIS; SEDIMENTS; TECTONICS;

CRUSTAL GROWTH; MAGMATISM;

EARTH ATMOSPHERE;

ARCHEAN; CRUSTAL EVOLUTION; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; PROTEROZOIC; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WYOMING;

EID: 0442281512     PISSN: 00084077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/e03-054     Document Type: Article

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