Grenvillian basement in the northern Cape Breton Highlands, Nova Scotia

The northernmost Cape Breton Highlands are underlain by the Blair River Complex, a distinctive assemblage of basement rocks including felsic and mafic gneisses, foliated gabbroic to granitic rocks, anorthosite, and foliated and unfoliated varieties of syenite. Major faults and mylonite zones separat...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences
Main Authors: Barr, Sandra M., Raeside, Robert P., van Breemen, Otto
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Canadian Science Publishing 1987
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/e87-096
http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/e87-096