Malley diabase dykes of the slave Craton, Canadian shield: U-Pb age, paleomagnetism, and implications for continental reconstructions in the early paleoproterozoic1

Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 435-454

  Buchan, Kenneth L ^a   Lecheminant, Anthony N ^a,b   van Breemen, Otto ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^b NONE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINARY ALLOYS; GEOMAGNETISM; LEAD ALLOYS; REMANENCE; URANIUM ALLOYS;

BADDELEYITE; CANADIAN SHIELDS; CLOSE PROXIMITY; CONTACT TESTS; RELATIVE ORIENTATION; STUDY AREAS; THERMAL DEMAGNETIZATION; YELLOWKNIFE;

GALLIUM;

CRATON; DEMAGNETIZATION; DIABASE; DIKE; EMPLACEMENT; ORIENTATION; OVERPRINTING; PALEOMAGNETISM; POLARIZATION; PROTEROZOIC; RECONSTRUCTION; URANIUM-LEAD DATING;

CANADA; CANADIAN SHIELD; NORTHWEST TERRITORIES; YELLOWKNIFE;

EID: 84856943605     PISSN: 00084077     EISSN: 14803313     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/E11-061     Document Type: Article

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