Magmatism and Eurekan deformation in the High Arctic Large Igneous Province: 40Ar-39Ar age of Kap Washington Group volcanics, North Greenland

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 303, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 203-214

  Tegner, C ^a   Storey, M ^b   Holm, P M ^c   Thorarinsson, S B ^c   Zhao, X ^d   Lo, C H ^e   Knudsen, M F ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b ROSKILDE UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Arctic; Chronology; Eurekan Orogeny; Greenland; Large Igneous Province; Volcanism

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC; CHRONOLOGY; EUREKAN OROGENY; GREENLAND; LARGE IGNEOUS PROVINCE; VOLCANISM;

FELDSPAR; ISOTOPES; KINEMATICS; RUBIDIUM; SILICATE MINERALS; STRONTIUM;

TECTONICS;

AGE DETERMINATION; DEFORMATION; EMPLACEMENT; GEOCHRONOLOGY; LARGE IGNEOUS PROVINCE; MAGMATISM; OROGENY; PALEOZOIC; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC SETTING; VOLCANISM;

ARCTIC; CANADA; CANADIAN ARCTIC; GREENLAND;

EID: 79952102914     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2010.12.047     Document Type: Article

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