Re-Os and U-Pb geochronological constraints on the eclogite-tonalite connection in the Archean Man Shield, West Africa

Precambrian Research

Volumn 118, Issue 3-4, 2002, Pages 267-283

  Barth, Matthias G ^a,c   Rudnick, Roberta L ^a,d   Carlson, Richard W ^b   Horn, Ingo ^a,e   McDonough, William F ^a,d  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d Bldg 142   (United States)

^e LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Archean crustal growth; Eclogite; Tonalite trondhjemite granodiorite; West African Craton

Indexed keywords

ISOTOPE; LEAD; MAGNESIUM; MINERAL; OSMIUM; OXYGEN; RHENIUM; URANIUM; ZIRCONIUM;

ARCHEAN; CRUSTAL EVOLUTION; ECLOGITE; GEOCHRONOLOGY; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; OCEANIC CRUST; TONALITE;

AFRICA; ARTICLE; CHRONOLOGY; GEOLOGY; METAMORPHOSIS; MODEL; PRECAMBRIAN; ROCK; SEA;

AFRICA;

EID: 0037175780     PISSN: 03019268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-9268(02)00111-0     Document Type: Article

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