Evidence for Mesoproterozoic basement in the Carolina terrane and speculations on its origin

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 304, Issue , 1996, Pages 207-217

  Mueller, Paul A ^a   Kozuch, Marianne ^a   Heatherington, Ann L ^a   Wooden, Joseph L ^b   Offield, Terry W ^c   Koeppen, Robert P ^c   Klein, Terry L ^c   Nutman, Allen P ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^d AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VOLCANIC ROCKS;

APPALACHIAN OROGEN; BLUE RIDGES; MAGMATIC ACTIVITY; MAGMATISMS; ND MODELING; NEOPROTEROZOIC; NORTH CAROLINA; PETROGENESIS;

BUILDINGS;

ALLOCHTHONY; BASEMENT ROCK; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MAGMATISM; PETROGENESIS; PROTEROZOIC; TERRANE;

AVALON ZONE; CAROLINA; PUERTO RICO; SUWANNEE BASIN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84870826785     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2304-3.207     Document Type: Article

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