Late- to post-tectonic setting of some major proterozoic anorthosite - mangerite - charnockite - granite (AMCG) suites

Canadian Mineralogist

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 729-750

  McLelland, James M ^a   Selleck, Bruce W ^a   Hamilton, Michael A ^b   Bickford, Marion E ^c  

^a Center for Language and Brain   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

AMCG (anorthosite Mangerite Charnockite Granite) suites; Anorthosite; Delamination; Geochronology; Post orogenic; Shear zone

Indexed keywords

ADIRONDACK MOUNTAINS; AMCG (ANORTHOSITE - MANGERITE - CHARNOCKITE - GRANITE) SUITES; ANORTHOSITE; APPALACHIANS; BACK-ARC; GEOCHRONOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION; GRANITIC MAGMAS; HIGH PRESSURE; HOTSPOTS; LITHOSPHERIC; LOWER CRUST; MAGMATISMS; NEW YORK; PENNSYLVANIA; POST-OROGENIC; PROTEROZOIC; SHEAR ZONE; SLAB BREAK-OFF; TECTONIC SETTINGS; UNDERPLATING; VIRGINIA;

DELAMINATION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GRANITE; LANDFORMS; SILICATE MINERALS; STEEL SHEET; TECTONICS;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

ANORTHOSITE; ASTHENOSPHERE; CHARNOCKITE; DELAMINATION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; OROGENY; PLAGIOCLASE; PROTEROZOIC; PYROXENE; SHEAR ZONE; SUBDUCTION; TECTONIC SETTING; ZIRCON;

ADIRONDACK MOUNTAINS; APPALACHIANS; CANADA; LABRADOR; NEW YORK [UNITED STATES]; NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR; NORWAY; PENNSYLVANIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 78549241305     PISSN: 00084476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3749/canmin.48.4.729     Document Type: Article

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