Provenance of a late Proterozoic-early Cambrian basin, Sierras de Córdoba, Argentina

Precambrian Research

Volumn 129, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 1-21

  Schwartz, Joshua J ^a,b   Gromet, L Peter ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

Continental reconstruction; Neoproterozoic Tectonics; Puncoviscana; Rodinia; Sierras Pampeanas

Indexed keywords

LEAD; ZIRCONIUM;

BASIN EVOLUTION; GONDWANA; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PROTEROZOIC; PROVENANCE; TECTONICS;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARGENTINA; CAMBRIAN; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; DETRITUS; EVAPORATION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; ISOTOPE ANALYSIS; POPULATION; PROTEROZOIC; REVIEW; ROCK; SEDIMENT;

ARGENTINA; CORDOBA [ARGENTINA]; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 0842307160     PISSN: 03019268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.precamres.2003.08.011     Document Type: Article

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