Did Late Palaeoproterozoic assembly of proto-Australia involve collision between the Pilbara, Yilgarn and Gawler Cratons? Geochronological evidence from the Mount Barren Group in the Albany-Fraser Orogen of Western Australia

Precambrian Research

Volumn 118, Issue 3-4, 2002, Pages 195-220

  Dawson, Galvin C ^a   Krapež, Bryan ^a   Fletcher, Ian R ^a   McNaughton, Neal J ^a   Rasmussen, Birger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Albany Fraser; Gawler; Palaeoproterozoic; SHRIMP; Yilgarn; Zircon

Indexed keywords

LEAD; URANIUM; ZIRCONIUM;

COLLISION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; PROTEROZOIC; SHRIMP DATING; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; ZIRCON;

AGE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CHRONOLOGY; GEOLOGY; PRECAMBRIAN;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0037175852     PISSN: 03019268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-9268(02)00110-9     Document Type: Article

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