Episodic Volcanism in the Buck Creek Complex (Central British Columbia, Canada): A History of Magmatism and Mantle Evolution from the Jurassic to the Early Tertiary

International Geology Review

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 551-572

  Dostal, J ^a   Owen, J V ^a   Church, B N ^b   Hamilton, T S ^c  

^a SAINT MARY S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Camosun College ^*  (Canada)

^c CAMOSUN COLLEGE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAGMATISM; MANTLE PROCESS;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 20444475749     PISSN: 00206814     EISSN: 19382839     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2747/0020-6814.47.6.551     Document Type: Article

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