Assessment of the relationship between emplacement of the Algoman plutons and regional deformation in the Rainy Lake region, Ontario

Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 43, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1653-1671

  Czeck, Dyanna M ^a   Maes, Stephanie M ^b   Sturm, Claire L ^c   Fein, Elizabeth M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c OBERLIN COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; DISLOCATIONS (CRYSTALS); GRANITE; MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; QUARTZ; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; TECTONICS;

ALGOMAN PLUTONS; EMPLACEMENT; GRANODIORITES; PLUTONS;

VOLCANIC ROCKS;

ARCHEAN; DEFORMATION; EMPLACEMENT; FOLIATION; GRANITE; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; METASEDIMENTARY ROCK; MICROSTRUCTURE; PLUTON; QUARTZ; VOLCANIC ROCK;

MINNESOTA; NORTH AMERICA; RAINY LAKE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34247264295     PISSN: 00084077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/E06-061     Document Type: Article

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