The timing and provenance record of the Late Permian Klondike orogeny in northwestern Canada and arc-continent collision along western North America

Tectonics

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Beranek, Luke P ^a,b   Mortensen, James K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEAD; PHOSPHATE MINERALS; STRATIGRAPHY; TECTONICS; ZIRCON;

AMPHIBOLITE-FACIES METAMORPHISM; ARC-CONTINENT COLLISION; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CRYSTALLIZATION AGE; DETRITAL ZIRCON; DUCTILE DEFORMATIONS; GREENSCHIST; INTRUSIVE ROCKS; LATE PERMIAN; LATE TRIASSIC; MESOZOIC; NORTH AMERICAN; OCEAN BASINS; PERMIAN; SEDIMENTARY RECORDS; SUBDUCTION ZONES; TECTONIC PROCESS; TECTONO-THERMAL EVENT; TRIASSIC; U-PB GEOCHRONOLOGY; U-PB ZIRCON;

GEOCHRONOLOGY;

AMPHIBOLITE FACIES; ARC-CONTINENT COLLISION; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CRYSTALLIZATION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; METAMORPHISM; MONAZITE; OROGENY; PERMIAN; PROVENANCE; TRIASSIC; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

CANADA; KLONDIKE; YUKON TERRITORY;

EID: 80055037779     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010TC002849     Document Type: Article

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