Detrital zircon link between headwaters and terminus of the upper triassic Chinle-Dockum paleoriver system

Science

Volumn 273, Issue 5271, 1996, Pages 97-100

  Riggs, N R ^a   Lehman, T M ^b   Gehrels, G E ^c   Dickinson, W R ^c  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ZIRCONIUM;

ARTICLE; CHRONOLOGY; DATA ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIVER; UNITED STATES;

ENTOVALVA; ROSA;

GEOCHRONOLOGY; PALAEORIVER SYSTEM; SANDSTONE; TRIASSIC; ZIRCON;

USA, NEVADA; USA, TEXAS;

EID: 0029663544     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.273.5271.97     Document Type: Article

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42. Acknowledgment by N.R.R. is made to the Donors of The Petroleum Research Fund, administered by the American Chemical Society, for support of this research. Support for zircon geochemistry and analysis was provided by National Science Foundation grant EAR-9416933 (G.E.G.). We thank R. F. Dubiel, J. D. Gleason, T. F. Lawton, S. G. Lucas, F J. Pazzaglia, and R. Slingerland for discussions; T. F. Lawton for review of an earlier version of the manuscript; and J. Ruiz for information about Permian plutons in Mexico. We thank J. P. Schnable for sample collection and A. L. Roach for zircon separation.