Terrane assembly and structural relationships in the eastern Prince Rupert quadrangle, British Columbia

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 343, Issue , 2000, Pages 1-21

  Crawford, Maria Luisa ^a   Crawford, William A ^a   Gehrels, George E ^b  

^a BRYN MAWR COLLEGE   (United States)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; FAULTING; IGNEOUS ROCKS; LEVEES;

AMPHIBOLITE FACIES; AMPHIBOLITE-FACIES METAMORPHISM; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; DUCTILE DEFORMATIONS; FLATTENING DEFORMATION; METAMORPHIC BELTS; REGIONAL METAMORPHISMS; STRUCTURAL RELATIONSHIP;

METAMORPHIC ROCKS;

AMPHIBOLITE FACIES; BASALT; BATHOLITH; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; DIKE; EMPLACEMENT; EXHUMATION; GREENSCHIST FACIES; METAMORPHISM; PALEOGENE; PALEOZOIC; PLUTON; SHEAR ZONE; VOLCANIC BELT;

ALASKA; BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; COAST MOUNTAINS; PRINCE RUPERT; TANANA; UNITED STATES; YUKON FLATS;

EID: 84870902602     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2343-4.1     Document Type: Article

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