Establishment of a 3.83-Ga magmatic age for the Akilia tonalite (southern West Greenland)

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 202, Issue 3-4, 2002, Pages 563-576

  Tachikawa, K ^a   Elderfield, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Archean; Geochronology; Ion probe data; Life origin; West Greenland; Zircon

Indexed keywords

ARCHEAN; GEOCHRONOLOGY; ION MICROPROBE; ORIGIN OF LIFE; TONALITE; ZIRCON;

GREENLAND;

EID: 0037201387     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(02)00825-7     Document Type: Article

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