U-Pb dating of the Musquodoboit Batholith, southern Nova Scotia: Evidence for a protracted magmatic-hydrothermal event in a Devonian intrusion

Atlantic Geology

Volumn 40, Issue 2-3, 2004, Pages 207-216

  Kontak, Daniel J ^a   Ham, Linda J ^a   Dunning, Greg ^b  

^a NOVA SCOTIA DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (Canada)

^b MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BATHOLITH; DEVONIAN; GEOCHRONOLOGY;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; NOVA SCOTIA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 23744433434     PISSN: 08435561     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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