Short-lived mantle generated magmatic events and their dyke swarms: The key unlocking Earth's palaeogeographic record back to 2.6Ga

Dyke Swarms - Time Markers of Crustal Evolution - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference, IDC-5

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 3-26

  Bleeker, Wouter ^a   Ernst, Richard ^b  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^b Ernst Geosciences   (Canada)

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ARCHAEAN; CONTINENTAL BREAK-UP; CONTINENTAL CRUSTS; DYKE SWARMS; GENERAL METHODOLOGIES; HIGH RESOLUTION; ROBUST METHODS; TEMPORAL ASSOCIATION; TEMPORAL MATCHING; WYOMING;

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