Exhumation of a collisional orogen: A perspective from the North American Grenville Province

Memoir of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 197, Issue , 2004, Pages 391-410

  Streepey, Margaret M ^a   Lithgow Bertelloni, Carolina ^b   Van Der Pluijm, Ben A ^b   Essene, Eric J ^b   Magloughlin, Jerry F ^c  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Extension; Grenville; Rodinia

Indexed keywords

COLLISION ZONE; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; EXHUMATION; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; GEODYNAMICS; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; OROGENY; PLUME; RODINIA; SHEAR ZONE; UPLIFT; URANIUM-LEAD DATING;

ADIRONDACK MOUNTAINS; CANADA; GRENVILLE PROVINCE; LAURENTIAN MOUNTAINS; NEW YORK [NEW YORK (STT)]; NEW YORK [UNITED STATES]; ONTARIO [CANADA]; QUEBEC [CANADA]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84870800616     PISSN: 00721069     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-1197-5.391     Document Type: Review

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