Rift and ocean floor volcanism from the Late Proterozoic and early Paleozoic of the Vermont Appalachians

Memoir of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 191, Issue , 1997, Pages 129-145

  Coish, R A ^a  

^a MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOLOGIC MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY;

APPALACHIANS; BASALTIC ROCKS; CONTINENTAL RIFT; EARLY CAMBRIANS; EARLY ORDOVICIAN; EARLY PALEOZOIC; METAVOLCANIC ROCKS; TECTONIC SLICES;

BASALT;

EXPLOSIVE VOLCANISM; LAURENTIA; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; ORDOVICIAN; PALEOZOIC; PROTEROZOIC; RIFT ZONE; SEAFLOOR SPREADING;

APPALACHIANS; UNITED STATES; VERMONT;

EID: 84870851748     PISSN: 00721069     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-1191-6.129     Document Type: Article

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