An extensive, crustally-derived, 3325 to 3310 Ma silicic volcanoplutonic suite in the eastern Pilbara Craton: Evidence from the Kelly Belt, McPhee Dome and Corunna Downs Batholith

Precambrian Research

Volumn 96, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 41-62

  Barley, M E ^a   Pickard, A L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Archaean; Geochemistry; Geochronology; Granite; Pilbara Craton; Rhyolite

Indexed keywords

AGE DETERMINATION; ARCHEAN; GEOCHEMISTRY; GRANITE; RHYOLITE; URANIUM-LEAD DATING;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0033563969     PISSN: 03019268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-9268(99)00003-0     Document Type: Article

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