U-Pb systematics of monazite and xenotime: Case studies from the Paleoproterozoic of the Grand Canyon, Arizona

Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology

Volumn 127, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 87-103

  Hawkins, David P ^a,b   Bowring, Samuel A ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b FRANKLIN AND MARSHALL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MONAZITE; PROTEROZOIC; URANIUM/LEAD DATING; XENOTIME;

USA, ARIZONA, GRAND CANYON;

EID: 0031418872     PISSN: 00107999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004100050267     Document Type: Article

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