A model for Iapetan rifting of Laurentia based on Neoproterozoic dikes and related rocks

Memoir of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 206, Issue , 2010, Pages 455-476

  Burton, William C ^a   Southworth, Scott ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEVEES; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; VOLCANIC ROCKS; VOLCANOES;

GEOCHEMICAL TRENDS; GEOLOGIC FEATURES; NORTHERN APPALACHIANS; SALIENT FEATURES; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION; TRIPLE JUNCTION; VOLCANIC CENTERS;

HYDRAULIC STRUCTURES;

BASEMENT ROCK; CLASTIC ROCK; CLASTIC SEDIMENT; CONTINENTAL BREAKUP; CRATON; DIKE SWARM; FELSIC ROCK; LAURENTIA; MAGMATISM; PROTEROZOIC; RIFTING; RODINIA; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION; TRIPLE JUNCTION; VOLCANIC ROCK;

CANADA; NEWFOUNDLAND; NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR;

EID: 79960086056     PISSN: 00721069     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2010.1206(20)     Document Type: Article

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