Nd isotopes, geochemistry, and constraints on sources of sediments in the Franklinian mobile belt, Arctic Canada

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 111, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 578-589

  Patchett, P J ^a   Roth, M A ^a   Canale, B S ^a   De Freitas, T A ^b   Harrison, J C ^b   Embry, A F ^b   Ross, G M ^b  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOCHEMISTRY; ISOTOPES; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS; TRACE ELEMENTS;

CLASTIC MATERIALS; CONVERGENT MARGIN; DEEP-WATER SEDIMENTS; MASSIVE QUANTITIES; NEGATIVE EPSILONS; PLATE CONVERGENCE; SEDIMENTARY UNITS; TRACE ELEMENT GEOCHEMISTRY;

SEDIMENTARY ROCKS;

GEOCHEMISTRY; PLATE CONVERGENCE; PROVENANCE; SEDIMENTARY ROCK;

ARCTIC CANADA; CANADA; FRANKLINIAN BELT;

EID: 0032788776     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0016-7606(1999)111<0578:NIGACO>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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