Provenance analysis of lower Paleozoic cratonic quartz arenites of the North American midcontinent region: U-Pb and Sm-Nd isotope geochemistry

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 111, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 1723-1738

  Johnson, Clark M ^a   Winter, Bryce L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINARY ALLOYS; EXPLORATORY GEOCHEMISTRY; GRANITE; ISOTOPES; LEAD ALLOYS; NEODYMIUM ALLOYS; QUARTZ; SAMARIUM ALLOYS; SANDSTONE; SILICATE MINERALS; URANIUM ALLOYS; VOLCANIC ROCKS; ZIRCON;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; DETRITAL ZIRCON; GRANITIC ROCKS; LOWER PALEOZOIC; MICHIGAN BASIN; PROVENANCE ANALYSIS; QUARTZ-ARENITE; REGRESSION LINES;

GALLIUM;

CAMBRIAN; ORDOVICIAN; PROVENANCE; SAMARIUM-NEODYMIUM DATING; SANDSTONE; URANIUM-LEAD DATING;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033388218     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0016-7606(1999)111<1723:PAOLPC>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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