Biostratigraphic, strontium isotopic, and geologic constraints on the landward movement and fragmentation of terranes within the Tofino Basin, British Columbia

Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 49, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 819-856

  Johns, Marjorie J ^a,d   Trotter, Julie A ^b,e   Barnes, Christopher R ^c   Narayan, Y Roshni ^c  

^a Pacific PaleoQuest   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^d ROYAL BRITISH COLUMBIA MUSEUM   (Canada)

^e CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CENOZOIC; CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; COMPLEX EVOLUTIONS; EARLY MIOCENE; EARLY OLIGOCENE; FORAMINIFERS; GEOLOGIC INFORMATION; HIGH RESOLUTION; HOLOCENES; LATE EOCENE; LATE OLIGOCENE; MAGNETIC DATA; MIOCENE; MULTI-CHANNEL SEISMIC; NEW SPECIMEN; OCEANIC SEDIMENTS; OFFSHORE WELLS; PLEISTOCENE; PLIOCENE; STRONTIUM ISOTOPES; SUBBASINS; THERMAL ALTERATION; WELL LOG DATA;

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; OFFSHORE OIL WELLS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STRONTIUM; TECTONICS;

ISOTOPES;

ACCRETION; BASIN EVOLUTION; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; DEFORMATION; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; EOCENE; FORAMINIFERA; MOVEMENT; PALEONTOLOGY; REGIONAL GEOLOGY; SEISMIC DATA; STRONTIUM ISOTOPE; SUBDUCTION; TERRANE; THERMAL ALTERATION; WELL LOGGING;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC RIM; TOFINO BASIN;

FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 84863208471     PISSN: 00084077     EISSN: 14803313     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/E2012-032     Document Type: Article

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