40Ar/39Ar dating in the Lochaber-Mulgrave area, northern mainland Nova Scotia: Implications for timing of regional metamorphism and sediment provenance in the Late Devonian - Early Carboniferous Horton Group

Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 987-996

  Reynolds, P H ^a   Barr, S M ^b   White, C E ^c   Teniere P J ^b  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b ACADIA UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c NOVA SCOTIA DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGON; SEDIMENTS; SHEAR DEFORMATION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

METAMORPHISM; TOTAL FUSION ANALYSIS; WHOLE-ROCK SPECTRA;

GEOCHRONOLOGY;

ARGON-ARGON DATING; CARBONIFEROUS; DEVONIAN; GEOCHRONOLOGY; PROVENANCE; REGIONAL METAMORPHISM; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; NOVA SCOTIA;

EID: 6044263523     PISSN: 00084077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/E04-050     Document Type: Article

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