Penokean tectonics along a promontory-embayment margin in east-central Minnesota

Precambrian Research

Volumn 157, Issue 1-4, 2007, Pages 26-49

  Chandler, V W ^a   Boerboom, T J ^a   Jirsa, M A ^a  

^a Minnesota Geological Survey   (United States)

Author keywords

Embayment; Geophysics; Granites; Paleoproterozoic; Promontory; Tectonics

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL COLLISION; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CRUST; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DEFORMATION; DEPOSITION; FOLD AND THRUST BELT; GNEISS; GRANITE; IGNEOUS ROCK; METAMORPHIC ROCK; PENOKEAN OROGENY; TERRANE; THIN SKINNED TECTONICS;

MICHIGAN; MINNESOTA; MINNESOTA BASIN; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WISCONSIN;

MURAYAMA VIRUS;

EID: 34447316147     PISSN: 03019268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.precamres.2007.02.009     Document Type: Article

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