According to two recently proposed tectonic models for the accretionary history of the southern Canadian Cordillera, the Omineca Belt (the hinterland to the...
Models for crustal recycling are based upon estimates of the amount of material being returned to the mantle today; thus, a better understanding of those...
The 1875-1840-Ma Great Bear magmatic zone is a 100-km wide by at least 900-km-long belt of predominantly subgreenschist facies volcanic and plutonic rocks that...
In the standard paradigm, continental crust is formed mainly by arc magmatism, but because the compositions of magma rising from the mantle are basaltic and...
Although progressively muted by the increasing thickness of Phanerozoic sediments in the Alberta Basin, the geophysical signature of tectonic domains in the...
The chronostratigraphy of Guandao section has served as the foundation for numerous studies of the end-Permian extinction and biotic recovery in south China....
The area includes Archean rocks of Slave craton and Paleoproterozoic rocks of Wopmay orogen. Both groups of rocks were deformed at 1.882 Ga during the...