The use of protolith zircon-age fingerprints in determining the protosource areas for some Australian dune sands

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 109, Issue 3-4, 1997, Pages 233-260

  Pell, Stephen D ^a   Williams, Ian S ^a   Chivas, Allan R ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Dunefield; Geochronology; Sediment provenance; Zircon U Pb

Indexed keywords

PROTOLITH; PROVENANCE; QUATERNARY; SAND; URANIUM/LEAD DATING;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0030999332     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0037-0738(96)00061-9     Document Type: Article

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