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Vishnu basement rocks of the Upper Granite Gorge: Continent formation 1.84 to 1.66 billion years ago
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Karl E. Karlstrom
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Karl E. Karlstrom
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 1 University of New Mexico, MSC03 2040, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131-0001, USA
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Bradley R. Ilg
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Bradley R. Ilg
Manager Petroleum Strategy, Planning and Promotion Organisation, New Zealand Petroleum & Minerals, Ministry of Economic Development, 33 Bowen Street, Wellington 6140, New Zealand
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David Hawkins
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David Hawkins
Wellesley College, 106 Central Street, Wellesley, Massachusetts 02481, USA
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Michael L. Williams
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Michael L. Williams
Department of Geosciences, 611 North Pleasant Street, 233 Morrill Science Center, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003-9297, USA
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Gregory Dumond
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Gregory Dumond
Department of Geosciences, 13 N. Duncan Street, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas 72701, USA
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Kevin Mahan
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Kevin Mahan
Department of Geological Sciences, University of Colorado–Boulder, Campus Box 399, 2200 Colorado Ave., Boulder, Colorado 80309-0399, USA
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Samuel A. Bowring
Samuel A. Bowring
Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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Published:November 01, 2012
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Karl E. Karlstrom, Bradley R. Ilg, David Hawkins, Michael L. Williams, Gregory Dumond, Kevin Mahan, Samuel A. Bowring, 2012. "Vishnu basement rocks of the Upper Granite Gorge: Continent formation 1.84 to 1.66 billion years ago", Grand Canyon Geology: Two Billion Years of Earth's History, J. Michael Timmons, Karl E. Karlstrom
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Grand Canyon Geology: Two Billion Years of Earth's History
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J. Michael Timmons;
J. Michael Timmons
New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources, New Mexico Tech, 801 Leroy Place, Socorro, New Mexico 87801, USA
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Karl E. Karlstrom
Karl E. Karlstrom
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 1 University of New Mexico, MSC03 2040, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131-0001, USA
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November 01, 2012
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- absolute age
- basement
- continental crust
- continental lithosphere
- crust
- deformation
- dikes
- folds
- foliation
- Grand Canyon
- granites
- igneous rocks
- intrusions
- lithofacies
- lithosphere
- metamorphic rocks
- monazite
- North America
- oceanic crust
- paleogeography
- Paleoproterozoic
- phosphates
- plate collision
- plate tectonics
- plutonic rocks
- Precambrian
- Proterozoic
- Rocky Mountains
- schists
- Southwestern U.S.
- subduction
- U. S. Rocky Mountains
- U/Pb
- United States
- upper Precambrian
- Vishnu Schist
- Upper Granite Gorge
- Granite Gorges
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