Metamorphism in the Ross orogen and its bearing on Gondwana margin tectonics

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 419, Issue , 2007, Pages 185-203

  Goodge, John W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DULUTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Antarctica; Convergent margin; Orogen; Paleozoic; Transantarctic Mountains

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; LITHOLOGY; METALS; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); TECTONICS;

ANTARCTICA; CONVERGENT MARGIN; OROGEN; PALEOZOIC; TRANSANTARCTIC MOUNTAINS;

PETROLOGY;

ACCRETION; CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; CONVERGENCE; COOLING; CRUSTAL THICKENING; DEFORMATION; GONDWANA; IGNEOUS GEOCHEMISTRY; METAMORPHISM; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; OROGENIC BELT; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PALEOZOIC; PHANEROZOIC; SEDIMENTATION; SUPERCONTINENT; TECTONIC SETTING; TECTONICS; THERMAL STRUCTURE;

ANTARCTICA; TRANSANTARCTIC MOUNTAINS;

EID: 63449086809     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2006.2419(10)     Document Type: Conference Paper

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