Timing of Grenville-age vs. Pan-African medium- to high grade metamorphism in western Dronning Maud Land (East Antarctica) and significance for correlations in Rodinia and Gondwana

Precambrian Research

Volumn 125, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 1-20

  Jacobs, J ^a   Fanning, C M ^b   Bauer, W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Grenville; Kalahari; Mesoproterozoic; Orogeny; U Pb SHRIMP; Zircon

Indexed keywords

GEOCHRONOLOGY; GONDWANA; GRENVILLIAN OROGENY; PALEOMAGNETISM; PROTEROZOIC; REWORKING; RODINIA;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ISLAND BIOGEOGRAPHY; SAMPLE;

ANTARCTICA; QUEEN MAUD LAND;

EID: 0038472389     PISSN: 03019268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-9268(03)00048-2     Document Type: Article

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