Age significance of U-Th-Pb zircon data from early archaean rocks of west Greenland - A reassessment based on combined ion-microprobe and imaging studies - Reply

Chemical Geology

Volumn 175, Issue 3-4, 2001, Pages 201-208

  Whitehouse, Martin J ^a   Kamber, Balz S ^b   Moorbath, Stephen ^c  

^a SWEDISH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DETERMINATION; ARCHEAN; DATING METHOD; URANIUM SERIES DATING; ZIRCON;

GREENLAND;

EID: 0035006484     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0009-2541(00)00301-6     Document Type: Article

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