Geochemistry of the Late Mesoproterozoic Mount Eve granite suite: Implications for Late to post-Ottawan tectonics in the New Jersey-Hudson Highlands

Memoir of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 197, Issue , 2004, Pages 505-523

  Gorring, Matthew L ^a   Estelle, Todd C ^a   Volkert, Richard A ^b  

^a MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b New Jersey Geological Survey   (United States)

Author keywords

A type; Granite; Grenville; New Jersey Highlands; Tectonics

Indexed keywords

ALUMINA; ALUMINUM OXIDE; CERIUM COMPOUNDS; EXPLORATORY GEOCHEMISTRY; FELDSPAR; GRANITE; MAGNESIA; MAGNETITE; MICA; PHOSPHATE MINERALS; QUARTZ; RARE EARTHS; SODIUM COMPOUNDS; TECTONICS; YTTERBIUM COMPOUNDS; ZIRCON;

A-TYPE; EU ANOMALIES; GRENVILLE; LITHOSPHERIC DELAMINATIONS; NEW JERSEY; PERALUMINOUS; SATURATION INDEX; THERMAL INPUTS;

EUROPIUM;

A-TYPE ROCK; GRANITE; GRENVILLIAN OROGENY; PROTEROZOIC; TECTONIC SETTING; UPLAND REGION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; HUDSON HIGHLANDS; NEW JERSEY MARGIN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33644487077     PISSN: 00721069     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-1197-5.505     Document Type: Article

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