Onset of seafloor spreading in the Iapetus ocean at 608 Ma: Precise age of the Sarek Dyke Swarm, northern Swedish Caledonides

Precambrian Research

Volumn 110, Issue 1-4, 2001, Pages 241-254

  Svenningsen, O M ^a  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Continent ocean transition; Iapetus Ocean; Isotope age dating; Rodinia; Sarek Dyke Swarm; Scandinavian Caledonides

Indexed keywords

ZIRCONIUM;

DIKE SWARM; IAPETUS OCEAN; PROTEROZOIC; SEAFLOOR SPREADING; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; URANIUM SERIES DATING;

ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; IONIZATION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; REVIEW; ROCK; SEA; SWEDEN; THERMAL ANALYSIS;

CALEDONIDES; KJOLEN MOUNTAINS; SWEDEN;

EID: 0035420045     PISSN: 03019268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-9268(01)00189-9     Document Type: Article

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