Petrography and sedimentation of the middle Proterozoic (Keweenawan) Nonesuch Formation, western Lake Superior region, Midcontinent Rift System

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 312, Issue , 1997, Pages 195-210

  Suszek, Thomas ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DULUTH   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPPER; CORE DRILLING; DRILLS; INFILL DRILLING; LAKES; OCEAN CURRENTS; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TEXTURES; VOLCANIC ROCKS; VOLCANOES; WATER LEVELS;

GENETIC RELATIONSHIPS; PERENNIAL LAKES; PETROGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; PRIMARY MECHANISM; SEDIMENTARY STRUCTURE; TECTONIC FRAMEWORK; THERMALLY STRATIFIED; TURBIDITY CURRENT;

DEPOSITION;

ARCHEAN; FELSIC ROCK; GRANITE; IGNEOUS INTRUSION; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; PALEOCURRENT; PETROGENESIS; PETROGRAPHY; PROTEROZOIC; SEDIMENTARY STRUCTURE; SEDIMENTOLOGY; TECTONOSTRATIGRAPHY;

BEAR CREEK [IOWA]; GREAT LAKES [NORTH AMERICA]; IOWA; LAKE SUPERIOR; MIDCONTINENT RIFT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84870790778     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2312-4.195     Document Type: Article

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