Initial Pb of the Amitsoq gneiss revisited: Implication for the timing of early Archaean crustal evolution in West Greenland

Chemical Geology

Volumn 150, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 19-41

  Kamber, Balz Samuel ^a   Moorbath, Stephen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Age; Archaean; Life; Pb isotopes; Unradiogenic

Indexed keywords

ARCHEAN; CRUSTAL EVOLUTION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GNEISS; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; LEAD;

GREENLAND;

EID: 0032563759     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0009-2541(98)00059-X     Document Type: Article

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