U-Pb geochronology in Liverpool Land and Canning Land, East Greenland - the complex record of a polyphase Caledonian orogeny

Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 473-494

  Corfu, Fernando ^a   Hartz, Ebbe H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMBRIANS; CRUSTAL LEVELS; DEVONIANS; DIFFERENT ORIGINS; ECLOGITES; FIELD STUDIES; GNEISS DOME; GRANODIORITE; GREENLAND; HIGH-STRAIN ZONES; LEUCOGRANITES; LOCAL DEFORMATIONS; MAGMATISMS; METASEDIMENTARY ROCKS; NEOPROTEROZOIC; NORTH EAST ATLANTIC; THERMAL IONIZATION MASS SPECTROMETRY; U-PB GEOCHRONOLOGY;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; DOMES; GEOCHRONOLOGY; MASS SPECTROMETERS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; SILICATE MINERALS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

TECTONICS;

CRUST; DATA SET; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; ECLOGITE; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GRANODIORITE; IONIZATION; LEAD; MAGMATISM; MAGNETIC FIELD; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METAMORPHISM; MIGMATIZATION; NAPPE; OROGENY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOZOIC; PERIDOTITE; SEDIMENTARY ROCK; TECTONOSTRATIGRAPHY; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TERRANE; URANIUM-LEAD DATING;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND;

EID: 78549286912     PISSN: 00084077     EISSN: 14803313     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/E10-066     Document Type: Article

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