Compilation of U-Pb zircon data from the Willyama Supergroup, Broken Hill region, Australia: Evidence for three tectonostratigraphic successions and four magmatic events?

Australian Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 965-983

  Raetz, M ^a   Krabbendam, M ^a   Donaghy, A G ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Base metals; Broken Hill Domain; Geochronology; Olary Domain; Proterozoic; Stratigraphy; Tectonics; Tectonostratigraphy; Uranium lead dating; Zircon

Indexed keywords

BASE METAL; GEOCHRONOLOGY; MAGMATISM; MINERALIZATION; PROTEROZOIC; TECTONOSTRATIGRAPHY;

AUSTRALIA; BROKEN HILL; NEW SOUTH WALES; SOUTH AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0036911446     PISSN: 08120099     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-0952.2002.00961.x     Document Type: Article

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