When did plate tectonics begin? evidence from the orogenic record

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 440, Issue , 2008, Pages 199-228

  Pease, Victoria ^a   Percival, John ^b   Smithies, Hugh ^c   Stevens, Gary ^d   Van Kranendonk, Martin ^c  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^c GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^d STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Accretion; Archean; Metamorphism; Orogeny; Plate tectonics

Indexed keywords

EARTH (PLANET); GEOCHRONOLOGY; GRANITE; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; TEMPERATURE;

ACCRETION; ARCHEAN; CONTINENTAL RIFTING; GEOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; LOW TEMPERATURE METAMORPHISM; METAMORPHISM; OROGENY; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

TECTONICS;

ACCRETION; ARCHEAN; COLLAPSE STRUCTURE; CONTINENTAL COLLISION; EXHUMATION; GEOLOGICAL RECORD; METAMORPHISM; OROGENY; PLATE CONVERGENCE; PLATE TECTONICS; PROTEROZOIC; RIFTING; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TERRANE;

AUSTRALIA; BARBERTON GREENSTONE BELT; PILBARA BLOCK; SUPERIOR PROVINCE; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 75249086573     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2008.2440(10)     Document Type: Article

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