Ages of detrital zircon from archean - Paleoproterozoic sequences: Implications for greenstone belt setting and evolution of a transamazonian foreland basin in Quadrilátero Ferrífero, southeast Brazil

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 141, Issue 1-4, 1996, Pages 259-276

  Machado, N ^a   Schrank, A ^b   Noce, C M ^c   Gauthier, G ^d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Archean; Greenstone belts; Inductively coupled plasma methods; Lower proterozoic; Mass spectra; Quadrilatero Ferrifero; Zircon

Indexed keywords

AGE DETERMINATION; ARCHAEAN; BASIN EVOLUTION; FORELAND BASIN; GREENSTONE BELT; PROTEROZOIC; ZIRCON;

BRAZIL, MINAS GERAIS, QUADRILATERO FERRIFERO;

EID: 0030467816     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0012-821x(96)00054-4     Document Type: Article

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