Assembling and reactivating the Proterozoic Capricorn Orogen: Lithotectonic elements, orogenies, and significance

Precambrian Research

Volumn 128, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 201-218

  Cawood, Peter A ^a,b   Tyler, Ian M ^c  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Capricorn; Glenburgh; Ophthalmia; Orogeny; Palaeoproterozoic; Pilbara; Reactivation; Yilgarn

Indexed keywords

CAPRICORN OROGENY; CONTINENTAL COLLISION; MINERALIZATION; OROGENY; PROTEROZOIC; REACTIVATION; RECONSTRUCTION;

ARCHAEAN; ARTICLE; HISTORY; PROTEROZOIC; ROCK; SEDIMENTATION; SOIL EROSION; SOIL STRUCTURE; VOLCANO;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 1242273766     PISSN: 03019268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.precamres.2003.09.001     Document Type: Article

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