Provenance of the Earaheedy Basin: Implications for assembly of the Western Australian Craton

Precambrian Research

Volumn 128, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 343-366

  Halilovic, J ^a   Cawood, P A ^a   Jones, J A ^b   Pirajno, F ^b   Nemchin, A A ^c  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Basin; Gascoyne; Mullingarra; Palaeoproterozoic; SHRIMP; Terrane; Yilgarn

Indexed keywords

CARBONIC ACID; LEAD; URANIUM; ZIRCONIUM;

BASIN EVOLUTION; CAPRICORN OROGENY; CRATON; PROTEROZOIC; PROVENANCE;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; METAMORPHOSIS; PROTEROZOIC; ROCK; SAMPLING; SEDIMENTATION; THICKNESS;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; EARAHEEDY BASIN; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 1242341338     PISSN: 03019268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.precamres.2003.09.007     Document Type: Article

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