Early Silurian mafic-ultramafic and granitic plutonism in contemporaneous flysch, Magerøy, northern Norway: U-Pb ages and regional significance

Journal of the Geological Society

Volumn 163, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 291-301

  Corfu, Fernando ^a   Torsvik, T H ^b,c,d   Andersen, T B ^a   Ashwal, L D ^d   Ramsay, D M ^e   Roberts, R J ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NORWAY   (Norway)

^c NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^e NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRANITE; PLUTONISM; SILURIAN;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; NORWAY; SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 33644814650     PISSN: 00167649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/0016-764905-014     Document Type: Article

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