Typology of detrital zircon as a key to unravelling provenance in rift siliciclastic sequences (permo-carboniferous of spiti, n india)

Geodinamica Acta

Volumn 9, Issue 2-3, 1996, Pages 101-113

  Caironi, Valeria ^a   Garzanti, Eduardo ^a,b   Sciunnach, Dario ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Detrital zircon; Northern india; Sandstones; Spiti district; Typology method

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000315364     PISSN: 09853111     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09853111.1996.11105280     Document Type: Article

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