Geochemistry of the northern Cache Creek terrane and implications for accretionary processes in the Canadian Cordillera

Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 13-34

  English, Joseph M ^a   Mihalynuk, Mitchell G ^b   Johnston, Stephen T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b Ministry of Energy Mines and Petroleum Resources   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASALTIC ROCKS; CARBONATE STRATA; COLLISIONAL OROGENESIS; CONVERGENT MARGIN; EARLY JURASSIC; ISLAND ARC; LATE PALEOZOIC; LATE TRIASSIC; MIDDLE JURASSIC; MINOR COMPONENTS; OCEAN BASINS; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; OCEANIC SEDIMENTS; SUBDUCTING PLATE; SUBDUCTION ZONES; UPPER PLATE;

CAVITY RESONATORS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; STRATIGRAPHY; TECTONICS; VOLCANOES;

VOLCANIC ROCKS;

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; CARBONATE SYSTEM; FOSSIL RECORD; GEOCHEMICAL METHOD; GEOCHEMISTRY; GROWTH CURVE; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; OCEAN BASIN; OROGENY; PETROGENESIS; TERRANE; TRIASSIC; VOLCANIC ROCK;

CANADA;

EID: 75649128673     PISSN: 00084077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/E09-066     Document Type: Article

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