Silurian gabbro-diorite-trondhjemite plutons in the Trondheim Nappe Complex, Caledonides, Norway: Petrology and U-Pb geochronology

Norsk Geologisk Tidsskrift

Volumn 87, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 329-342

  Nilsen, Odd ^a   Corfu, Fernando ^a   Roberts, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NORWAY   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIORITE; GABBRO; IGNEOUS INTRUSION; MAGMATISM; PETROLOGY; PLUTON; SILURIAN; TRONDHJEMITE; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

CALEDONIDES; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; NORWAY; SCANDINAVIA; SOR TRONDELAG; TRONDHEIM;

EID: 51949098088     PISSN: 0029196X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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