Provenance and tectonic history of the Gander Zone in the Caledonian/Appalachian orogen: Implications for the origin and assembly of Avalon

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 304, Issue , 1996, Pages 347-367

  Van Staal, Cees R ^a   Sullivan, Robert W ^a   Whalen, Joseph B ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASALT; BINARY ALLOYS; BUILDINGS; FAULTING; GEOCHEMISTRY; ISOTOPES; LEAD ALLOYS; NEODYMIUM ALLOYS; SAMARIUM ALLOYS; SILICATE MINERALS; URANIUM ALLOYS; ZIRCON;

CRYSTALLIZATION AGE; EARLY CAMBRIANS; GEOCHEMICAL DATA; LATE NEOPROTEROZOIC; LATE ORDOVICIAN; LOWER PALEOZOIC; NORMAL FAULTING; TECTONIC HISTORY;

GALLIUM ALLOYS;

AVALONIA; GABBRO; GEOCHEMICAL SURVEY; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MAGMA; METAMORPHIC FACIES; OROGENIC BELT; PROVENANCE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

APPALACHIANS; CALEDONIA COUNTY; UNITED STATES; VERMONT;

EID: 84870784029     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2304-3.347     Document Type: Article

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