Pan-continental river system draining Grenville orogen recorded by U-Pb and Sm-Nd geochronology of Neoproterozoic quartzarenites and mudrocks, Northwestern Canada

Journal of Geology

Volumn 105, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 1-17

  Rainbird, R H ^a   McNicoll, V J ^a   Theriault R J ^a   Heaman, L M ^a,b   Abbott, J G ^a,c   Long, D G F ^a,d   Thorkelson, D J ^a,e  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c Canada/Yukon Geoscience Office   (Canada)

^d LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIDED RIVER; GEOCHRONOLOGY; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; PALAEOGEOGRAPHY; PROTEROZOIC; QUARTZARENITE;

CANADA, NORTHWEST TERRITORIES;

EID: 0030851656     PISSN: 00221376     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/606144     Document Type: Article

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