Implications of granitoid geochemical and isotopic (Nd, O, Pb) data from the Cambrian-Ordovician Notre Dame arc for the evolution of the Central Mobile belt, Newfoundland Appalachians

Memoir of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 191, Issue , 1997, Pages 367-395

  Whalen, Joseph B ^a   Jenner, George A ^b   Longstaffe, Frederick J ^c   Gariépy, Clément ^d   Fryer, Brian J ^e  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^b MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOCHEMISTRY; ISOTOPES; MINERALS; SILICA;

CONTINENTAL CRUSTS; CURRENT MODELS; FRACTIONAL CRYSTALLIZATION; GEOCHEMICAL EVIDENCE; LARGE ION LITHOPHILE ELEMENTS; NEWFOUNDLANDS; PLUTONIC ROCKS; SUPRASUBDUCTION ZONE;

IGNEOUS ROCKS;

BACKARC BASIN; GEOCHEMICAL SURVEY; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GRANITOID; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LEAD ISOTOPE; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; MANTLE PROCESS; NEODYMIUM ISOTOPE; OCEANIC CRUST; ORDOVICIAN; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

APPALACHIANS; CANADA; NEWFOUNDLAND; NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR;

EID: 84870785570     PISSN: 00721069     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-1191-6.367     Document Type: Article

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