Integrated Nd isotopic and U-Pb detrital zircon systematics of clastic sedimentary rocks from the Slave Province, Canada: Evidence for extensive crustal reworking in the early- to mid-Archean

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 174, Issue 3-4, 2000, Pages 283-299

  Yamashita, Katsuyuki ^a   Creaser, Robert A ^a   Villeneuve, Mike E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Archean; Crust; Nd 144 Nd 143; Reworking; Slave Province; U Pb geochronology

Indexed keywords

ARCHEAN; CONTINENTAL CRUST; REWORKING; SAMARIUM-NEODYMIUM DATING; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

CANADA;

EID: 0034651207     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(99)00265-4     Document Type: Article

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