Mississippian volcanic assemblage conformably overlying Cordilleran miogeoclinal strata, Turnagain River area, northern British Columbia, is not part of an accreted terrane

Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 42, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1449-1465

  Erdmer, Philippe ^a   Mihalynuk, Mitchell G ^b   Gabrielse, Hubert ^c   Heaman, Larry M ^a   Creaser, Robert A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b Ministry of Energy Mines and Petroleum Resources   (Canada)

^c GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOCHEMISTRY; GEOCHRONOLOGY; LEAD; NIOBIUM; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; TECTONICS; URANIUM; VOLCANIC ROCKS; ZIRCON;

TECTONIC CONTACT; VOLCANIC ASSEMBLAGE;

STRATIGRAPHY;

MISSISSIPPIAN; VOLCANIC ROCK;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 30444450684     PISSN: 00084077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/e05-045     Document Type: Article

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