Correlation of Archaean and Palaeoproterozoic units between northeastern Canada and western Greenland: Constraining the pre-collisional upper late accretionary history of the Trans-Hudson orogen

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 318, Issue , 2009, Pages 193-235

  St Onge, Marc R ^a   Van Gool, Jeroen A M ^b,c   Garde, Adam A ^b   Scott, David J ^d  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

^c Scandinavian Biomedical Institute AS   (Denmark)

^d Program Branch   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCRETION; ARCHEAN; CONTINENTAL COLLISION; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CRATON; DEFORMATION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; MAGMATISM; OROGENY; PLATE TECTONICS; SUPERCONTINENT; TECTONOSTRATIGRAPHY;

ARCTIC; CANADA; GREENLAND; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 70349214903     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/SP318.7     Document Type: Article

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