U/Pb dating of detrital zircons: Implications for the provenance record of Gondwana margin terranes

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 111, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1107-1119

  Cawood, Peter A ^a   Nemchin, Alexander A ^a   Leverenz, Axel ^b   Saeed, Ayesha ^b   Ballance, Peter F ^b  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITION; IGNEOUS ROCKS; SILICATE MINERALS; ZIRCON;

CATHODOLUMINESCENCE IMAGING; DETRITAL ZIRCON; EARLY CRETACEOUS; EARLY PALEOZOIC; EASTERN AUSTRALIA; IGNEOUS ACTIVITY; MARIE BYRD LAND; SEDIMENT ACCUMULATION;

SEDIMENTARY ROCKS;

DETRITAL DEPOSIT; GONDWANA; TERRANE; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 0033405892     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0016-7606(1999)111<1107:UPDODZ>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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