Composition and provenance of the Snowcap assemblage, basement to the Yukon-Tanana terrane, northern cordillera: Implications for cordilleran crustal growth

Geosphere

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 439-464

  Piercey, Stephen J ^a,b,c   Colpron, Maurice ^d  

^a SJPGeoConsulting   (Canada)

^b MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^c LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d Yukon Geological Survey   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKARC BASIN; CALC ALKALINE ROCK; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; DETRITAL DEPOSIT; DEVONIAN; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MAGMATISM; MESOZOIC; METAMORPHOSIS; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PALEOZOIC; PERMIAN; PROVENANCE; RIFTING; SEDIMENTARY ROCK; TERRANE; ZIRCON;

YUKON-TANANA TERRANE;

EID: 77954008143     PISSN: 1553-040     EISSN: 1553040X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/GES00505.S3     Document Type: Article

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