Lower to Middle Ordovician evolution of peri-Laurentian arc and backarc complexes in Iapetus: Constraints from the Annieopsquotch accretionary tract, central Newfoundland

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 118, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 324-342

  Zagorevski, A ^a   Rogers, N ^b   van Staal, C R ^a,b   McNicoll, V ^b   Lissenberg, C J ^a   Valverde Vaquero, P ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^c INSTITUTO GEOLÓGICO Y MINERO DE ESPAÑA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Accretion; Notre Dame subzone; Sm Nd isotopes; Trace elements; U Pb geochronology; Whole rock geochemistry

Indexed keywords

SAMARIUM-NEODYMIUM ISOTOPES; URANIUM-LEAD GEOCHRONOLOGY; WHOLE-ROCK GEOCHEMISTRY;

GEOCHEMISTRY; ISOTOPES; LEAD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEODYMIUM; ROCKS; SAMARIUM; TRACE ELEMENTS; URANIUM;

GEOCHRONOLOGY;

IAPETUS OCEAN; ISLAND ARC; ORDOVICIAN;

CANADA; NEWFOUNDLAND; NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 33645308236     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 00167606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B25775.1     Document Type: Article

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