Basement tracing using Mid-Proterozoic anorthosites straddling a palaeoterrane boundary, Ontario, Canada

Precambrian Research

Volumn 129, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 169-184

  Prevec, Stephen A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Anorthosite; Grenville Province; Isotope ratios; Neodymium; Terrane; Trace elements

Indexed keywords

EUROPIUM; NEODYMIUM; SAMARIUM; ZIRCONIUM;

ANORTHOSITE; BASEMENT ROCK; IGNEOUS GEOCHEMISTRY; IGNEOUS INTRUSION; PROTEROZOIC;

ARTICLE; CANADA; GEOCHEMISTRY; GEOLOGY; LIQUID; MINERALOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PRECAMBRIAN; ROCK;

CANADA; CANADIAN SHIELD; GRENVILLE PROVINCE; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 0842307149     PISSN: 03019268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.precamres.2003.10.009     Document Type: Article

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