Late Neoproterozoic Avalonian and related peri-Gondwanan rocks of the Newfoundland Appalachians

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 304, Issue , 1996, Pages 9-28

  O'Brien, S J ^a   O'Brien, B H ^a   Dunning, G R ^b   Tucker, R D ^c  

^a Geological Survey   (Canada)

^b MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITION; METALS; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; TECTONICS; VOLCANOES;

APPALACHIAN OROGEN; CAMBRO-ORDOVICIAN; DEPOSITIONAL EVENT; EARLY ORDOVICIAN; LATE NEOPROTEROZOIC; MARINE SEDIMENTATION; STRUCTURAL EVENTS; TECTONO-THERMAL EVENT;

VOLCANIC ROCKS;

GONDWANA; IGNEOUS INTRUSION; MAFIC ROCK; ORDOVICIAN; OROGENY; PROTEROZOIC; SEDIMENTATION; TECTONOSTRATIGRAPHY; VOLCANIC ROCK;

APPALACHIANS; CANADA; NEWFOUNDLAND; NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR;

EID: 84870831400     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2304-3.9     Document Type: Article

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