Tectonic significance of a Llanvirn age for the Dunn Point volcanic rocks, Avalon terrane, Nova Scotia, Canada: Implications for the evolution of the Iapetus and Rheic Oceans

Tectonophysics

Volumn 379, Issue 1-4, 2004, Pages 199-209

  Hamilton, Michael A ^a   Murphy, J Brendan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b ST FRANCIS XAVIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Appalachian orogen; Avalonia; Iapetus Ocean; Paleozoic; Rheic Ocean; U Pb geochronology

Indexed keywords

AVALONIA; IAPETUS OCEAN; LLANVIRNIAN; PALEOZOIC; TECTONOPHYSICS; VOLCANISM;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; NOVA SCOTIA;

EID: 1142292510     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2003.11.006     Document Type: Article

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