Conventional U-Pb dating versus single-grain Pb evaporation dating of complex zircons from a pegmatite in the high-grade gneisses of southwestern Sweden

Lithos

Volumn 38, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 93-105

  Soderlund U ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GNEISS; LEAD/LEAD DATING; PEGMATITE; PROTEROZOIC; URANIUM/LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

SWEDEN;

EID: 0030469621     PISSN: 00244937     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0024-4937(95)00042-9     Document Type: Article

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