Terrane transfer during the Caledonian orogeny: Baltican affinities of the Liverpool Land Eclogite Terrane in East Greenland

Journal of the Geological Society

Volumn 168, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 15-26

  Augland, Lars Eivind ^a   Andresen, Arild ^a   Corfu, Fernando ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEVONIANS; ECLOGITES; GARNET PERIDOTITE; GREENLAND; LATE ORDOVICIAN; MAGMATIC ROCK; ORDOVICIAN; PROTOLITHS; SHEAR ZONE; UPPER PLATE; WESTERN GNEISS REGION;

METALS; SILICATE MINERALS;

METAMORPHIC ROCKS;

BASEMENT ROCK; CALEDONIAN OROGENY; CRUSTAL EVOLUTION; DEVONIAN; ECLOGITE; FACIES ANALYSIS; FOOTWALL; HORST; ORDOVICIAN-SILURIAN BOUNDARY; ORTHOGNEISS; P-T CONDITIONS; PRESSURE EFFECT; PROTOLITH; SHEAR ZONE; TECTONIC SETTING; TERRANE; TRANSPRESSION;

ARCTIC; EAST GREENLAND; GREENLAND;

EID: 84860389454     PISSN: 00167649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/0016-76492010-093     Document Type: Article

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