ID-TIMS using the step-wise dissolution technique versus ion microprobe U-Pb dating of metamict Archean zircons from NE Madagascar

Precambrian Research

Volumn 121, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 73-84

  Paquette, Jean Louis ^a   Moine, Bernard ^b   Rakotondrazafy, Michel A F ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ BLAISE PASCAL   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ANTANANARIVO   (Madagascar)

Author keywords

Granite; Ion microprobe; Late Archaean; Madagascar; Metamict zircon; U Pb dating

Indexed keywords

LEAD; URANIUM; ZIRCONIUM;

ARCHEAN; DISSOLUTION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GRANITOID; ION MICROPROBE;

ARCHAEAN; ARTICLE; CHRONOLOGY; GEOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; GEOCHEMISTRY; GRANITE; INDIA; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; ISOTOPE ANALYSIS; MADAGASCAR;

MADAGASCAR;

EID: 0037470577     PISSN: 03019268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-9268(02)00200-0     Document Type: Article

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