Sensitive high resolution ion microprobe (SHRIMP) detrital zircon geochronology provides new evidence for a hidden neoproterozoic foreland basin to the Grenville Orogen in the eastern Midwest, U.S.A

Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 1505-1515

  Santos, Joao Orestes Schneider ^a   Hartmann, Léo Afraneo ^b   McNaughton, Neal Jesse ^c   Easton, Robert M ^d   Rea, Ron G ^e   Potter, Paul E ^f  

^a CPRM/Brazilian Geological Survey   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^d Ontario Geological Survey   (Canada)

^e OHIO DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; CATHODOLUMINESCENCE; ELECTRONS; SANDSTONE; ZIRCON;

DENUDATION;

GEOCHRONOLOGY;

FORELAND BASIN; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GRENVILLIAN OROGENY; PROTEROZOIC; SHRIMP DATING; ZIRCON;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0036825865     PISSN: 00084077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/e02-052     Document Type: Article

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