Research Catalog

Title

Proterozoic lithospheric evolution / edited by A. Kröner.

Publication

Washington, D.C. : American Geophysical Union ; Boulder, Colo. : Geological Society of America, 1987.

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Details

Additional Authors

• International Geological Congress (27th : 1984 : Moscow, Russia)
• Kröner, A. (Alfred)

Description

xi, 273 pages : illustrations; 28 cm.

Series Statement

• Geodynamics series ; v. 17
• Publication no. 0130 of the International Lithosphere Program

Uniform Title

• Geodynamics series ; v. 17.
• Publication (International Lithosphere Program) ; no. 130.

Subjects

• Sedimentation and deposition > Congresses
• Geodynamics > Congresses
• Geology, Stratigraphic > Precambrian > Congresses

Note

• "Based on a symposium entitled 'Proterozoic crustal dynamics and lithospheric evolution' that was held during the special session on the International Lithosphere Programme at the 27th International Geological Congress in Moscow, USSR, August 1984"--Pref.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies.

Contents

• Phanerozoic and Precambrian crustal growth / Arthur P.S. Reymer and Gerald Schubert -- Petrologic aspects of Precambrian granulite facies terrains bearing on their origins / Robert C. Newton -- Fluid distribution in the continental lithosphere / Jacques Touret -- Precambrian carbonaceous formations : their evolution and metal content / N.A. Sozinov and O.V. Gorbachev -- Early and Middle Proterozoic provinces in the central United States / W.R. Van Schmus, M.E. Bickford, and I. Zietz -- Proterozoic tectonic elements of the U.S. mapped by COCORP deep seismic profiling / Larry D. Brown -- Early Proterozoic foredeeps, foredeep magmatism, and superior-type iron-formations of the Canadian Shield / Paul F. Hoffman -- Seismic features of Proterozoic crust in northern Australia and their evolution / D.M. Finlayson -- Sm-Nd isotopic constraints on the evolution of Precambrian crust in the Australian continent / M.T. McCulloch.
• (cont.) Orogenesis and tectonic process in the Early to Middle Proterozoic of northern Australia / M.A. Etheridge, R.W.R. Rutland, and L.A.I. Wyborn -- The Precambrian history of the Baltic Shield / Roland Gorbatschev, Gabor Gaál -- Geodynamic significance of contrasting granitoid types in northern Sweden / M.R. Wilson ... [et al.] -- Comparative characteristics of the lithosphere of the Russian platform, the West Siberian platform and the Siberian platform from seismic observations on long-range profiles / Ju.A. Burmakov ... [et al.] -- Geoelectrical and palaeomagnetic studies on the Bushveld Complex / J.H. de Beer, R. Meyer, and P.J. Hattingh -- The structural-stratigraphic development of part of the Namaqua Metamorphic Complex, South Africa-- an example of Proterozoic major thrust tectonics / G. van Aswegen ... [et al.] -- Crustal evolution of the northern Kibaran belt, eastern and central Africa / Jean Klerkx ... [et al.] -- Pan-African crustal evolution in the Nubian segment of northeast Africa / A. Kröner ... [et al.].
• (cont.) Proterozoid crustal development in the Pan-African regime of Nigeria / A.C. Ajibade and M. Woakes, M.A. Rahaman.

ISBN

087590517X

LCCN

86028803

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