Conductive incubation and the origin of dome-and-keel structure in Archean granite-greenstone terrains: A model based on the eastern Pilbara Craton, Western Australia

Tectonics

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2004, Pages

  Sandiford, Mike ^a   Van Kranendonk, Martin J ^b   Bodorkos, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Archean; Dome and keel; Granite greenstone terrains; Pilbara Craton; Structure

Indexed keywords

ARCHEAN; CRUSTAL EVOLUTION; GREENSTONE BELT; MODEL; TECTONICS; VOLCANISM;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; PILBARA BLOCK; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 2442429997     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002TC001452     Document Type: Article

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