Age of the world's oldest rocks refined using Canada's SHRIMP: the Acasta Gneiss Complex, Northwest Territories, Canada

Geoscience Canada

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 27-31

  Stern, Richard A ^a   Bleeker, Wouter ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEAN; CONTINENTAL CRUST; GEOCHRONOLOGY; SHRIMP; URANIUM-LEAD DATING;

CANADA, NORTHWEST TERRITORIES;

EID: 0031719181     PISSN: 03150941     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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