Detrital zircon age patterns and provenance in late Paleozoic-early Mesozoic New Zealand terranes and development of the paleo-Pacific Gondwana margin

Geology

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 939-942

  Wysoczanski, R J ^a   Gibson, G M ^b   Ireland, T R ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SILICATE MINERALS;

CHARACTERISTIC PEAKS; CLOSE PROXIMITY; DETRITAL ZIRCON; LATE PALEOZOIC; LOWER PALEOZOIC; NEW ENGLAND; SOURCE REGION; SOUTHEAST AUSTRALIA;

ZIRCON;

DETRITAL DEPOSIT; FOLD BELT; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GONDWANA; MESOZOIC; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOZOIC; PERMIAN-TRIASSIC BOUNDARY; PROVENANCE; TERRANE; ZIRCON; TERRANES;

NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 0031399307     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1997)025<0939:DZAPAP>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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