Age relationships in supracrustal sequences of the northern part of the Murchison Terrane, Archaean Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia: A combined field and zircon U-Pb study

Australian Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 153-165

  Pidgeon, R T ^a   Hallberg, J A ^b  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b J Hallberg and Associates   (Australia)

Author keywords

Murchison Terrane; Radiometric dating; Yilgarn Craton

Indexed keywords

ARCHEAN; CRATON; GEOCHRONOLOGY; TERRANE; URANIUM SERIES DATING; VOLCANIC ROCK; VOLCANISM;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0034143874     PISSN: 08120099     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-0952.2000.00772.x     Document Type: Article

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