Provenance of Jurassic sedimentary rocks of south-central Quesnellia, British Columbia: Implications for paleogeography

Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 103-125

  Petersen, Nathan T ^a   Smith, Paul L ^a   Mortensen, James K ^a   Creaser, Robert A ^b   Tipper, Howard W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; GEOCHEMISTRY; GEOCHRONOLOGY; ISOTOPES; PETROGRAPHY; SANDSTONE; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; ZIRCON;

JURASSIC ARC; PERICRATONIC TERRANES;

EARTH SCIENCES;

ISLAND ARC; JURASSIC; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PROVENANCE; SEDIMENTARY ROCK; TERRANE;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 1842812637     PISSN: 00084077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/e03-073     Document Type: Article

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