U-Pb evidence of ∼1.7 Ga crustal tectonism during the Nimrod Orogeny in the Transantarctic Mountains, Antarctica: Implications for Proterozoic plate reconstructions

Precambrian Research

Volumn 112, Issue 3-4, 2001, Pages 261-288

  Goodge, John W ^a   Fanning, C Mark ^b   Bennett, Vickie C ^b  

^a SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Antarctica; Geochronology; Orogeny; Paleoproterozoic

Indexed keywords

LEAD; URANIUM; ZIRCONIUM;

CRUSTAL EVOLUTION; OROGENY; PROTEROZOIC; SHRIMP DATING; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC RECONSTRUCTION;

AGE DETERMINATION; ANTARCTICA; ARCHAEAN; ARTICLE; CRYSTALLIZATION; GEOLOGICAL ERA; GEOLOGY; GEOMORPHOLOGY; GRANITE; GROWTH; MICROANALYSIS; PROTEROZOIC; ROCK; SEDIMENT; SEDIMENTATION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; VOLCANO;

ANTARCTICA;

EID: 0035843030     PISSN: 03019268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-9268(01)00193-0     Document Type: Article

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