Use of U-Pb geochronology to identify successive, spatially overlapping tectonic episodes during Silurian-Devonian orogenesis in south-central Maine, USA

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 119, Issue 9-10, 2007, Pages 1218-1231

  Gerbi, Christopher ^a   West Jr , David P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

^b MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acadian; Appalachians; Geochronology; Neo Acadian; Strain partitioning; Transpression; U Pb

Indexed keywords

METAMORPHISM; OROGENESIS; PLUTONISM; TECTONOMETAMORPHIC ZONE;

DEFORMATION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; TECTONICS; ZIRCON;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

AMPHIBOLITE FACIES; DEFORMATION; DEVONIAN; GEOCHRONOLOGY; METAMORPHISM; MONAZITE; OROGENY; SILURIAN; TRANSPRESSION; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

APPALACHIANS; MAINE; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84874979432     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 00167606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B26162.1     Document Type: Article

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