Deciphering cryptic P-T-d-t histories in the western Thor-Odin dome, Monashee Mountains, Canadian Cordillera: A key to unravelling pre-Cordilleran tectonic signatures

Journal of Structural Geology

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 399-421

  Spalla, M Iole ^a   Zanoni, Davide ^b   Williams, Paul F ^b   Gosso, Guido ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

Author keywords

HT exhumation; HT transposition; P T d t paths; Tectonometamorphic memory

Indexed keywords

BREAK-UP; CORDILLERAN TECTONICS; FABRIC DEVELOPMENT; GEOLOGIC HISTORY; GEOTHERMS; HT EXHUMATION; HT TRANSPOSITION; JURASSIC; LITHOSPHERIC EXTENSION; MINERAL ASSEMBLAGE; P-T PATH; P-T-D-T PATHS; PALAEOZOIC; PROTEROZOIC; RE-EQUILIBRATION; RODINIA; SCALE DOMAINS; TECTONOMETAMORPHIC MEMORY;

DOMES; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

RECONSTRUCTION (STRUCTURAL);

CONTINENTAL BREAKUP; DECOMPRESSION; EXHUMATION; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; METAMORPHISM; P-T-T PATH; PALEOZOIC; PROTEROZOIC; RODINIA; TECTONIC STRUCTURE;

COLUMBIA MOUNTAINS; MONASHEE MOUNTAINS;

EID: 79951680113     PISSN: 01918141     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsg.2010.11.014     Document Type: Article

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