Age and significance of Grenvillian and Silurian orogenic events in the Finnmarkian Caledonides, Northern Norway

Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 419-440

  Corfu, F ^a   Gerber, M ^b   Andersen, T B ^a   Torsvik, T H ^a,c,d,e   Ashwal, L D ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^c GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NORWAY   (Norway)

^d NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^e UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE STRUCTURES; GABBROIC ROCKS; ISOTOPE DILUTIONS; ISOTOPIC METHODS; LAURENTIAN; MIGMATITE; OROGENIC EVENTS; PARTIAL MELTING; THERMAL IONIZATION MASS SPECTROMETRY; TRANSFORM FAULT;

GRANITE; ISOTOPES; MASS SPECTROMETERS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; PHOSPHATE MINERALS; SILICATE MINERALS;

TECTONICS;

AGE; AMPHIBOLITE; CALEDONIAN OROGENY; DATING METHOD; GRENVILLIAN OROGENY; IONIZATION; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; LAURENTIA; LEAD; LEUCOSOME; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MELTING; METAMORPHIC ROCK; METAMORPHISM; MONAZITE; PALEOMAGNETISM; PLUTONIC ROCK; SILURIAN; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TERRANE; THRUST; TITANITE; ZIRCON;

FINNMARK; NORWAY;

EID: 79952260287     PISSN: 00084077     EISSN: 14803313     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/E10-043     Document Type: Article

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