Timing and duration of melting in the mid orogenic crust: Constraints from U-Pb (SHRIMP) data, Muskoka and Shawanaga domains, Grenville Province, Ontario

Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 41, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1339-1365

  Slagstad, Trond ^a,c   Hamilton, Michael A ^b,d   Jamieson, Rebecca A ^a   Culshaw, Nicholas G ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^c GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NORWAY   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; DEFORMATION; EARTH SCIENCES; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GRANITE; HISTORY; MELTING;

OROGENIC CRUST; OROGENY; PROTOLITHS; SENSITIVE HIGH-RESOLUTION ION MIROPROBES (SHRIMP);

ROCKS;

GRENVILLIAN OROGENY; MELTING; OROGENIC BELT; PARTIAL MELTING; PROTEROZOIC; SHRIMP DATING; URANIUM-LEAD DATING;

EID: 12444338892     PISSN: 00084077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/E04-068     Document Type: Article

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