Stabilization and reactivation of cratonic lithosphere from the lower crustal record in the western Canadian shield

Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology

Volumn 156, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 529-549

  Flowers, Rebecca M ^a   Bowring, Samuel A ^b   Mahan, Kevin H ^a   Williams, Michael L ^c   Williams, Ian S ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^d AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTHENOSPHERE; CATHODOLUMINESCENCE; CRATON; EXHUMATION; GRANULITE FACIES; HIGH PRESSURE; ION MICROPROBE; RECRYSTALLIZATION; THERMOCHRONOLOGY; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

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

EID: 50849104257     PISSN: 00107999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00410-008-0301-5     Document Type: Article

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