Detrital zircons as tracers of sedimentary provenance: Limiting conditions from statistics and numerical simulation

Chemical Geology

Volumn 216, Issue 3-4, 2005, Pages 249-270

  Andersen, Tom ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Clastic sediments; Detritus; Provenance determination; Statistics; U Pb; Zircon

Indexed keywords

CLASTIC SEDIMENT; CRUSTAL EVOLUTION; PROVENANCE; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS; TRACER; URANIUM SERIES DATING; ZIRCON;

EID: 14644420911     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2004.11.013     Document Type: Article

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