Constraints on the provenance of the uppermost allochthonous terrane of the NW Iberian Massif: Inferences from detrital zircon U-Pb ages

Terra Nova

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 138-144

  Fernández Suárez, Javier ^a   Díaz García, Florentino ^b   Jeffries, Teresa E ^c   Arenas, Ricardo ^a   Abati, Jacobo ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

^c DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOCHTHON; GONDWANA; HERCYNIAN OROGENY; OROGENIC BELT; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PROVENANCE; TERRANE;

SPAIN;

EID: 0038607709     PISSN: 09544879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3121.2003.00479.x     Document Type: Article

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