Western Grenville Province holds key to midcontinental Granite-Rhyolite Province enigma

Terra Nova

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 181-187

  Slagstad, Trond ^a   Culshaw, N G ^b   Daly, J S ^c   Jamieson, R A ^b  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NORWAY   (Norway)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACK ANALYSIS; CONTINENTAL ARC; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; GRANITE; MAGMATISM; PROTEROZOIC; RHYOLITE; RIFTING; SOURCE ROCK; STRUCTURAL CONTROL; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; UNDERPLATING;

CANADA; CANADIAN SHIELD; GRENVILLE PROVINCE; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 66349090101     PISSN: 09544879     EISSN: 13653121     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3121.2009.00871.x     Document Type: Article

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