Precise zircon geochronology in the Adirondack Lowlands and implications for revising plate-tectonic models of the Central Metasedimentary Belt and Adirondack Mountains, Grenville Province, Ontario and New York

Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 967-984

  Wasteneys, Hardolph ^a,c   McLelland, James ^b   Lumbers, Sydney ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Canada)

^b Center for Language and Brain   (United States)

^c NONE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEROZOIC; TECTONIC RECONSTRUCTION; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

CANADA; NEW YORK; ONTARIO; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033490339     PISSN: 00084077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/e99-020     Document Type: Article

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