Evidence for Neoproterozoic continental arc magmatism in the Santa Quitéria Batholith of Ceará State, NW Borborema Province, NE Brazil: Implications for the assembly of West Gondwana

Gondwana Research

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 265-273

  Fetter, Allen H ^a   Saraiva dos Santos, Ticiano J ^b   Van Schmus, William R ^c   Hackspacher, Peter C ^a   de Brito Neves, Benjamin Bley ^d   Arthaud, Michel H ^e   Nogueira Neto, José A ^e   Wernick, Eberhard ^a  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^e FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Borborema Province; Cear State; Geochronology; Santa Quit ria Batholith; West Gondwana

Indexed keywords

BATHOLITH; CONTINENTAL ARC; CONVERGENCE; CRATON; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GONDWANA; MAGMATISM; PROTEROZOIC; SUBDUCTION; URANIUM-LEAD DATING;

BORBOREMA; BRAZIL; CEARA;

EID: 0142031000     PISSN: 1342937X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1342-937X(05)70975-8     Document Type: Article

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