Provenance of the Proterozoic Thelon Basin, Nunavut, Canada, from detrital zircon geochronology and detrital quartz oxygen isotopes

Precambrian Research

Volumn 129, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 115-140

  Palmer, Sarah E ^a   Kyser, T Kurt ^a   Hiatt, Eric E ^b  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN OSHKOSH   (United States)

Author keywords

Oxygen isotopes; Paleoproterozoic; Provenance; Thelon Basin; Zircons

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN; SILICON DIOXIDE; ZIRCONIUM;

BASIN EVOLUTION; PROTEROZOIC; PROVENANCE;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; ATOMIC EMISSION SPECTROMETRY; CANADA; DETRITUS; GEOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; MICROANALYSIS; PALEOZOIC; PROTEROZOIC; ROCK; SAND; SEDIMENT; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; NUNAVUT; THELON BASIN;

EID: 0842307154     PISSN: 03019268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.precamres.2003.10.010     Document Type: Article

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