Chronology of the Mount Magnet granite-greenstone terrain, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia: Implications for field based predictions of the relative timing of granitoid emplacement

Precambrian Research

Volumn 78, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 237-260

  Schiøtte, Lasse ^a   Campbell, Ian H ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEAN; GRANITE GREENSTONE TERRAIN; GRANITOID EMPLACEMENT; URANIUM/LEAD DATING;

AUSTRALIA, WESTERN AUSTRALIA, YILGARN CRATON, MOUNT MAGNET;

EID: 0030442368     PISSN: 03019268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0301-9268(95)00064-X     Document Type: Article

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