Multistage exhumation and juxtaposition of lower continental crust in the western Canadian Shield: Linking high-resolution U-Pb and40Ar/ 39Ar thermochronometry with pressure-temperature-deformation paths

Tectonics

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2006, Pages

  Flowers, R M ^a,b   Mahan, K H ^b,c   Bowring, S A ^a   Williams, M L ^c   Pringle, M S ^a   Hodges, K V ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGON-ARGON DATING; CONTINENTAL CRUST; DEFORMATION; EXHUMATION; MAFIC ROCK; MAGMATISM; METAMORPHIC ROCK; P-T CONDITIONS; REGIONAL METAMORPHISM; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; THERMOCHRONOLOGY; UNROOFING; URANIUM-LEAD DATING;

ALBERTA; ATHABASCA; CANADA; CANADIAN SHIELD; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 33745408422     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005TC001912     Document Type: Article

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