Depositional age and provenance of the Marboo Formation from SHRIMP U-Pb zircon geochronology: Implications for the early Palaeoproterozoic tectonic evolution of the Kimberley region, Western Australia

Precambrian Research

Volumn 95, Issue 3-4, 1999, Pages 225-243

  Tyler, I M ^a   Page, R W ^b   Griffin, T J ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN GEOLOGICAL SURVEY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

Author keywords

Palaeoproterozoic; Plate tectonics; Provenance; SHRIMP data; Western Australia

Indexed keywords

AGE DETERMINATION; PROTEROZOIC; PROVENANCE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; URANIUM-LEAD DATING;

AUSTRALIA; KIMBERLEY; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0033553352     PISSN: 03019268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-9268(98)00120-X     Document Type: Article

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