Middle Cambrian to Ordovician arc-backarc development on the leading edge of Ganderia, Newfoundland Appalachians

Memoir of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 206, Issue , 2010, Pages 367-396

  Zagorevski, A ^a   Van Staal, C R ^b   Rogers, N ^a   McNicoll, V J ^a   Pollock, J ^c  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^c MOUNT ROYAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAULTING; GEOCHRONOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY; VOLCANOES;

BACK-ARC BASIN BASALTS; EXTENSIONAL FAULTS; LOWER ORDOVICIAN; MODERN ANALOGUES; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; STRATIGRAPHIC DATA; SUPRASUBDUCTION ZONE; TAUPO VOLCANIC ZONE;

VOLCANIC ROCKS;

BACKARC BASIN; BASIN EVOLUTION; CAMBRIAN; CONTINENTAL ARC; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; GEOLOGICAL RECORD; GONDWANA; ORDOVICIAN; OROGENY; RIFT ZONE; RIFTING; STRATIGRAPHY; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TECTONIC SETTING;

APPALACHIANS; CANADA; NEW ZEALAND; NEWFOUNDLAND; NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR; NORTH ISLAND; TAUPO VOLCANIC ZONE;

EID: 79952070224     PISSN: 00721069     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2010.1206(16)     Document Type: Article

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