Detrital zircon geochronology of Neoproterozoic to Middle Cambrian miogeoclinal and platformal strata: Northwest Sonora, Mexico

Geofisica Internacional

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 295-308

  Gross, Essa L ^a   Stewart, John H ^b   Gehreis, George E ^a  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Detrital zircons; Northwest Mexico; U Pb geochronology

Indexed keywords

GEOCHRONOLOGY; PROTEROZOIC;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA; SONORA;

EID: 0007377173     PISSN: 00167169     EISSN: 2954436X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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