Age, structural setting, and exhumation of the Liverpool Land eclogite terrane, East Greenland Caledonides

Lithosphere

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 267-286

  Augland, Lars Eivind ^a   Andresen, Arild ^a   Corfu, Fernando ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINARY ALLOYS; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GRANITE; LEAD ALLOYS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; SILICATE MINERALS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; URANIUM ALLOYS; ZIRCON;

BRITTLE DUCTILE TRANSITIONS; HIGH PRESSURE METAMORPHISM; HIGH-PRESSURE ROCKS; ISOTOPE DILUTIONS; SPATIAL RELATIONSHIPS; STRUCTURAL SETTING; THERMAL IONIZATION MASS SPECTROMETRY; U-PB GEOCHRONOLOGY;

FAULTING;

AMPHIBOLITE; BRITTLE DEFORMATION; CALC ALKALINE ROCK; CALEDONIAN OROGENY; DETACHMENT FAULT; ECLOGITE; EXHUMATION; FOOTWALL; GEOCHRONOLOGY; HANGING WALL; HIGH PRESSURE; MIGMATIZATION; ORDOVICIAN-SILURIAN BOUNDARY; PEGMATITE; PLUTONIC ROCK; SHEAR ZONE; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; TECTONIC SETTING; URANIUM-LEAD DATING;

ARCTIC; EAST GREENLAND; GREENLAND;

EID: 78549264875     PISSN: 19418264     EISSN: 19474253     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/L75.1     Document Type: Article

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