New isotopic constraints on the age of the Halls Reward Metamorphics, North Queensland, Australia: Delamerian metamorphic ages and Grenville detrital zircons

Gondwana Research

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 241-249

  Nishiya, Tatsuo ^a,b   Watanabe, Teruo ^b   Yokoyama, Kazumi ^c   Kuramoto, Yoshiyuki ^b  

^a KISO JIBAN CONSULTANTS CO LTD   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cambrian Neoproterozoic age; Geochronology; Halls Reward Metamorphics; Tasman Tectonic Line; U Th Pb chemical dating

Indexed keywords

AGE DETERMINATION; CHEMOSTRATIGRAPHY; CRATON; DETRITAL DEPOSIT; GONDWANA; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MUSCOVITE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PROTEROZOIC; ZIRCON;

AUSTRALIA; QUEENSLAND;

EID: 0142185999     PISSN: 1342937X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1342-937X(05)70973-4     Document Type: Article

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