The significance of titanite and apatite U-Pb ages: Constraints for the post-magmatic thermal-hydrothermal evolution of a batholithic complex, Berens River area, northwestern Superior Province, Canada

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Volumn 62, Issue 17, 1998, Pages 2979-2995

  Corfu, Fernando ^a   Stone, Denver ^b  

^a Roy Ontario Mus 100 Queen's Park   (Canada)

^b Ontario Geol Surv 933 Ramsey L   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOCHRONOLOGY; HYDROTHERMAL SYSTEM; PLUTONISM; URANIUM SERIES DATING;

CANADA;

EID: 0032410019     PISSN: 00167037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-7037(98)00225-7     Document Type: Article

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