Provenance of the Meguma terrane, Nova Scotia: Rifted margin of early Paleozoic Gondwana

Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-8

  Waldron, John W F ^a   White, Chris E ^b   Barr, Sandra M ^c   Simonetti, Antonio ^a,d   Heaman, Larry M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b NOVA SCOTIA DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (Canada)

^c ACADIA UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d University of Notre Dame   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHEAN; CAMBRIANS; DETRITAL ZIRCONS; EARLY PALEOZOIC; HALIFAX; LOCAL SOURCES; NOVA SCOTIAS; ORDOVICIAN; OROGENS; PROTEROZOIC;

OCEAN ENGINEERING; OCEANOGRAPHY; SILICATE MINERALS; ZIRCON;

GEOCHRONOLOGY;

AVALONIA; CAMBRIAN; GONDWANA; ORDOVICIAN; PALEOZOIC; PAN AFRICAN OROGENY; PROVENANCE; TERRANE;

CANADA; GOLDENVILLE GOLD MINE; MEGUMA TERRANE; NORTH AMERICA; NOVA SCOTIA;

EID: 65349172509     PISSN: 00084077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/E09-004     Document Type: Article

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