Identifying granite sources by SHRIMP U-Pb zircon geochronology: An application to the Lachlan foldbelt

Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology

Volumn 137, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 323-341

  Keay, Sue ^a,c   Steele, David ^b,d   Compston, William ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOCHRONOLOGY; GRANITE; ORDOVICIAN; PETROGENESIS; URANIUM SERIES DATING;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0033492102     PISSN: 00107999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004100050553     Document Type: Article

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