Syndeformational granite crystallisation along the Mount Magnet Greenstone Belt, Yilgarn Craton: Evidence of large-scale magma-driven strain localisation during Neoarchean time

Australian Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 59, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 793-806

  Zibra, I ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

granite; Neoarchean; synmagmatic deformation; Yilgarn Craton

Indexed keywords

ARCHEAN; CRYSTALLIZATION; DEFORMATION; EMPLACEMENT; GRANITE; MAGMA; MAGMATISM; PARTIAL MELTING; PLUTON; SHEAR ZONE; STRAIN;

AUSTRALIA; WESTERN AUSTRALIA; YILGARN BLOCK;

EID: 84864588765     PISSN: 08120099     EISSN: 14400952     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08120099.2012.684887     Document Type: Article

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