Ion microprobe discovery of archaean and early proterozoic zircon xenocrysts in southwest Sweden

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Volumn 122, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 377-383

  Cornell, David ^a   Årebäck, Hans ^a   Scherstén, Anders ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Archaean; Baltic shield; Crustal growth; Dating; Episyenite; Nordsim; Zircon

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEA;

EID: 0039000210     PISSN: 11035897     EISSN: 20000863     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/11035890001224377     Document Type: Article

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