Relationship between detrital zircon age-spectra and the tectonic evolution of the Late Archaean Witwatersrand Basin, South Africa

Precambrian Research

Volumn 129, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 141-168

  Kositcin, Natalie ^a   Krapež, Bryan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Foreland basin; Passive margin; Provenance; SHRIMP; Witwatersrand; Zircon

Indexed keywords

ZIRCONIUM;

ARCHEAN; BASIN EVOLUTION; PROVENANCE; SHRIMP DATING; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; ZIRCON;

AGE; ARTICLE; CHRONOLOGY; DYNAMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL EROSION; EVOLUTION; GEOGRAPHY; GRANITE; PRECAMBRIAN; ROCK; SOUTH AFRICA; WIND EROSION;

AFRICA; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WITWATERSRAND;

EID: 0842307155     PISSN: 03019268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.precamres.2003.10.011     Document Type: Article

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