Provenance of detrital zircons on the Western Australia coastline - Implications for the geologic history of the Perth basin and denudation of the Yilgarn craton

Geology

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 879-882

  Sircombe, K N ^a,c   Freeman, M J ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Department of Minerals and Energy ^*  (Australia)

^c GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITS; PLACERS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SILICATE MINERALS; ZIRCON; ZIRCON DEPOSITS;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; DENUDATION RATES; DETRITAL ZIRCON; GEOLOGIC HISTORY; PINJARRA OROGEN; PLACER DEPOSITS; WESTERN AUSTRALIA; YILGARN CRATONS;

EROSION;

BEACH; DETRITAL DEPOSIT; PLACER DEPOSIT; PROVENANCE; ZIRCON;

AUSTRALIA; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0033403211     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1999)027<0879:PODZOT>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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