Timing of high-pressure metamorphism in the Yukon-Tanana terrane, Canadian Cordillera: Constraints from U-Pb zircon dating of eclogite from the Teslin tectonic zone

Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 709-715

  Creaser, Robert A ^a   Heaman, Larry M ^a   Erdmer, Philippe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECLOGITE; METAMORPHISM; PERMIAN; URANIUM/LEAD DATING;

CANADA, CANADA CORDILLERA, YUKON-TANANA TERRANE;

EID: 0030724706     PISSN: 00084077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/e17-057     Document Type: Article

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