Coats Land crustal block, East Antarctica: A tectonic tracer for Laurentia?

Coats Land crustal block, East Antarctica: A tectonic tracer for Laurentia?

Undeformed rhyolite and granophyre in the Coats Land crustal block of East Antarctica, dated as 1112 ± 4 Ma, are identical in age to both the Umkondo large igneous province (LIP) of the Kalahari craton (southern Africa) and the early Keweenawan LIP of Laurentia (North America). Although marine and s...

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Main Authors: Loewy, S., Dalziel, I., Pisarevsky, Sergei, Connelly, J., Tait, J., Hanson, R., Bullen, D.
Format: Journal Article
Published: Geological Society of America 2011
Subjects:
tectonic tracer
Laurentia
Coats Land
Grenville orogen
East Antarctica
Kalahari craton
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/14588

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