Fast Cooling and Exhumation of the Valhalla Metamorphic Core Complex, Southeastern British Columbia

International Geology Review

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 193-209

  Spear, Frank S ^a  

^a Research Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COOLING; EXHUMATION; METAMORPHIC ROCK; PETROLOGY; UNROOFING;

NORTH AMERICA; OMINECA BELT;

EID: 1842788741     PISSN: 00206814     EISSN: 19382839     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2747/0020-6814.46.3.193     Document Type: Article

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