Middle Proterozoic age for the Montpelier Anorthosite, Goochland terrane, eastern Piedmont, Virginia

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 108, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 1481-1491

  Aleinikoff, John N ^a   Horton Jr , J Wright ^b   Walter, Marianne ^a  

^a DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINARY ALLOYS; BUILDINGS; LANDFORMS; LEAD ALLOYS; SILICATE MINERALS; URANIUM; ZIRCON;

BASEMENT ROCKS; BLUE RIDGES; ISOTOPIC SYSTEMATICS; LAURENTIAN; METAMORPHIC IN; PROTEROZOIC; PROTEROZOIC BASEMENT; WEIGHTED AVERAGES; VIRGINIA;

URANIUM ALLOYS; LANDFORMS;

ANORTHOSITE; BASEMENT ROCK; CRYSTALLIZATION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GRENVILLIAN OROGENY; PROTEROZOIC; TITANITE; URANIUM; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON; GRENVILLIAN; URANIUM/LEAD DATING;

GOOCHLAND COUNTY; PIEDMONT [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES; VIRGINIA; GOOCHLAND TERRANE; USA;

EID: 0030441605     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0016-7606(1996)108<1481:MPAFTM>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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