Geochronology and geochemistry of Putnam-Nashoba terrane metavolcanic and plutonic rocks, eastern Massachusetts: Constraints on the early Paleozoic evolution of eastern North America

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 111, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 240-253

  Acaster, Martin ^a,b   Bickford, M E ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Murray Smith and Associates Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKALINITY; BINARY ALLOYS; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GRANITE; LEAD ALLOYS; PHOSPHATE MINERALS; SILICATE MINERALS; TRACE ELEMENTS; VOLCANIC ROCKS; VOLCANOES; ZIRCON;

CHEMICAL SIMILARITY; CRUSTAL ANATEXIS; EASTERN NORTH AMERICA; GRANITIC PLUTONS; IGNEOUS ACTIVITY; MAJOR AND TRACE ELEMENTS; PRESSURE-TEMPERATURE CONDITIONS; UPB ZIRCON AGE (SHRIMP);

URANIUM ALLOYS;

GEOCHEMISTRY; GEOCHRONOLOGY; METAVOLCANIC ROCK; PLUTON; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TERRANE;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 84879879982     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0016-7606(1999)111<0240:GAGOPN>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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