A 40Ar/39Ar study of oceanic and continental deformation processes during an oblique collision: Taconian orogeny in the Quebec reentrant of the Canadian Appalachians

Tectonics

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Malo, Michel ^a   Ruffet, Gilles ^b   Pincivy, Alix ^a   Tremblay, Alain ^c  

^a CENTRE EAU TERRE ENVIRONNEMENT   (Canada)

^b STATION DE RADIOASTRONOMIE DE NANÇAY   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGON-ARGON DATING; CONTINENTAL COLLISION; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; DEFORMATION; EMPLACEMENT; LINEATION; METABASALT; OBDUCTION; OPHIOLITE; ORDOVICIAN; TACONIC OROGENY; TRANSPRESSION;

APPALACHIANS; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; QUEBEC [CANADA];

EID: 55949101766     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006TC002094     Document Type: Article

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