Crustal architecture above the high-pressure belt of the Grenville Province in the Manicouagan area: New structural, petrologic and U-Pb age constraints

Precambrian Research

Volumn 130, Issue 1-4, 2004, Pages 199-228

  Indares, Aphrodite ^a   Dunning, Greg ^a  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

Continental collision; Extrusion; Grenville Province; Metamorphism; Mid P granulites; U Pb geochronology

Indexed keywords

LEAD; URANIUM;

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; HIGH PRESSURE; PETROLOGY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONIC SETTING; THERMAL EVOLUTION; URANIUM SERIES DATING;

ASTHENOSPHERIC UPWELLING; COLLISIONALLY ACTIVATED DISSOCIATION; LENS; METAMORPHOSIS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; REVIEW; ROCK;

CANADA; CANADIAN SHIELD; GRENVILLE PROVINCE; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 1542270947     PISSN: 03019268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.precamres.2003.11.005     Document Type: Article

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