Application of Lu-Hf garnet dating to unravel the relationships between deformation, metamorphism and plutonism: An example from the Prince Rupert area, British Columbia

Tectonophysics

Volumn 485, Issue 1-4, 2010, Pages 62-77

  Wolf, David E ^a   Andronicos, Christopher L ^a   Vervoort, Jeffery D ^b   Mansfield, Michael R ^c   Chardon, Dominique ^d,e,f  

^a Institute for the Study of the Continents   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO   (United States)

^d OBSERVATOIRE MIDI PYRÉNÉES   (France)

^e CNRS   (France)

^f INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

Baja British Columbia; Cordillera; Geochronology; Metamorphism; Tectonics; Transpression

Indexed keywords

AFFECTED AREA; BAJA BRITISH COLUMBIA; BRITISH COLUMBIA; CORDILLERA; CRUSTAL THICKENINGS; FIELD GRADIENT; FIRST-ORDER; FOLIATION DEVELOPMENT; MATRIX; ME-XICO; NORTH AMERICAN; PLUTON EMPLACEMENT; PORPHYROBLASTS; REGIONAL TECTONICS; SHEAR ZONE; SIERRA NEVADA BATHOLITH; TECTONIC HISTORY; TIME PERIODS; TRANSPRESSION; TRANSPRESSIONAL DEFORMATION;

DEFORMATION; GARNETS; GEOCHRONOLOGY; HAFNIUM; ISOTOPES; PETROLOGY; SILICATE MINERALS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

TECTONICS;

DATING METHOD; DEFORMATION; EMPLACEMENT; GARNET; GEOCHRONOLOGY; HAFNIUM; KINEMATICS; LUTETIUM; PLUTONISM; REGIONAL METAMORPHISM; SHEAR ZONE; SUTURE ZONE; TRANSPRESSION;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; CANADIAN CORDILLERA; IDAHO; PRINCE RUPERT; SALMON RIVER [IDAHO]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77950630136     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2009.11.020     Document Type: Article

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