Sm-Nd, Rb-Sr and Th-U-Pb zircon ages of syn- and post-tectonic granitoids from the Axum area of northern Ethiopia

Journal of African Earth Sciences

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 313-327

  Tadesse, Tarekegn ^a,b   Hoshino, Mitsuo ^b   Suzuki, Kazuhiro ^b   Iizumi, Shigeru ^c  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ETHIOPIA   (Ethiopia)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c SHIMANE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOCHRONOLOGY; GRANITOID; I TYPE ROCK; IGNEOUS INTRUSION; STRUCTURAL CONTROL; TECTONIC SETTING; TECTONOSTRATIGRAPHY;

ETHIOPIA;

EID: 0034144177     PISSN: 08995362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0899-5362(00)00022-1     Document Type: Article

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