Timescales of migmatization, melt crystallization, and cooling in a Cordilleran gneiss dome: Valhalla complex, southeastern British Columbia

Tectonics

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Gordon, S M ^a   Whitney, D L ^a   Teyssier, C ^a   Grove, M ^b   Dunlap, W J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DETERMINATION; COOLING; CRYSTALLIZATION; EXHUMATION; GNEISS; MIGMATITE; MIGMATIZATION; PARTIAL MELTING; THERMOCHRONOLOGY; TIMESCALE; URANIUM-LEAD DATING;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; CANADIAN CORDILLERA; NORTH AMERICA; OMINECA BELT; ROCKY MOUNTAINS;

EID: 49749091124     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007TC002103     Document Type: Article

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