Palaeoproterozoic crustal accretion and collision in the southern Capricorn Orogen: The Glenburgh Orogeny

Precambrian Research

Volumn 128, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 237-255

  Occhipinti, S A ^a   Sheppard, S ^b   Passchier, C ^c   Tyler, I M ^b   Nelson, D R ^b  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Capricorn Orogen; Deformation; Orogeny; Palaeoproterozoic; Plate tectonics; Western Australia

Indexed keywords

ACCRETION; CAPRICORN OROGENY; CONTINENTAL COLLISION; CRUSTAL EVOLUTION; OROGENY; PROTEROZOIC;

ARCHAEAN; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; GEOLOGICAL ERA; GEOLOGY; GRANITE; HISTORY; PROTEROZOIC; SEDIMENTATION;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 1242341345     PISSN: 03019268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.precamres.2003.09.002     Document Type: Article

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