Significance of the Norumbega fault zone in southwestern Maine: Clues from the geochemistry of granitic rocks

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 331, Issue , 1999, Pages 105-119

  Tomascak, Paul B ^a,b   Krogstad, Eirik J ^a,c   Walker, Richard J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^c Dansk Lithosfærcenter   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOTITE; BUILDINGS; ISOTOPES; MICA; TRACE ELEMENTS;

BIOTITE GRANITE; CRYSTALLIZATION AGE; FRACTIONATION PROCESS; GRANITIC PEGMATITE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MAJOR AND TRACE ELEMENTS; REGIONAL TECTONICS; SOURCE MATERIAL;

GRANITE;

AVALONIA; BASEMENT ROCK; BIOTITE; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLIZATION; FAULT ZONE; FRACTIONATION; GEOCHEMICAL SURVEY; GRANITE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; NEODYMIUM ISOTOPE; TERRANE;

MAINE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33846183037     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2331-0.105     Document Type: Article

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