Repeated late Neoproterozoic-Silurian lower crustal melting beneath the Antigonish Highlands, Nova Scotia: Nd isotopic evidence and tectonic interpretations

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 304, Issue , 1996, Pages 109-120

  Murphy, J B ^a   Keppie, J D ^a   Dostal, J ^b   Cousens, B L ^c  

^a ST FRANCIS XAVIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b SAINT MARY S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUILDINGS; ISOTOPES; MELTING; TECTONICS; TRACE ELEMENTS; VOLCANOES;

APPALACHIAN OROGEN; IGNEOUS ACTIVITY; ISOTOPIC CHARACTERISTICS; ISOTOPIC SIGNATURES; LATE NEOPROTEROZOIC; LOWER CRUSTAL MELTING; TECTONO-THERMAL EVENT; VARIABLE INTERACTION;

VOLCANIC ROCKS;

BASEMENT ROCK; BIMODAL ASSOCIATION; CAMBRIAN; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LOWER CRUST; MAGMATISM; MELTING; NEODYMIUM ISOTOPE; PROTEROZOIC; SILURIAN; TECTONIC SETTING; TECTONOPHYSICS; VOLCANIC ROCK;

ANTIGONISH HIGHLANDS; APPALACHIANS; AVALON PENINSULA; CANADA; LAURENTIAN MOUNTAINS; NEWFOUNDLAND; NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR; NOVA SCOTIA; QUEBEC [CANADA];

EID: 84870833011     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2304-3.109     Document Type: Article

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