New U-Pb ages for Early Ordovician magmatism in Central Spain

Journal of the Geological Society

Volumn 157, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 15-26

  Valverde Vaquero, P ^a,b   Dunning, G R ^a  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^b JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Absolute age; Gneiss; Ordovician; Spain

Indexed keywords

GEOCHRONOLOGY; GNEISS; MAGMATISM; ORDOVICIAN; URANIUM SERIES DATING;

CENTRAL IBERIAN ZONE; SPAIN;

EID: 0002647771     PISSN: 00167649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/jgs.157.1.15     Document Type: Article

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