Basin architecture and syndepositional fault activity during deposition of the Neoproterozoic Mackenzie Mountains supergroup, Northwest Territories, Canada

Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 45, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1158-1184

  Turner, Elizabeth C ^a   Long, Darrel G F ^a  

^a LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOCHRONOLOGY; LANDFORMS; STRATIGRAPHY; SUBSIDENCE; ZINC;

ABRUPT CHANGES; GROWTH FAULTS; LARAMIDE COMPRESSIONS; LITHOFACIES; NEOPROTEROZOIC; PLATE MODELS; PLATE SEGMENTS; REGIONAL DISTRIBUTIONS; SHORT DISTANCES; SYNDEPOSITIONAL FAULTS; TRANSFER FAULTS;

PLATE METAL;

CARBONATE; DEPOSITION; GROWTH FAULT; PALEOZOIC; STRATIGRAPHY;

CANADA; MACKENZIE MOUNTAINS; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 57649183489     PISSN: 00084077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/E08-062     Document Type: Article

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