New time constraints for the age of metamorphism at the ancestral Pacific Gondwana margin of southern Chile (42-52°S)

Revista Geologica de Chile

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2002, Pages

  Thomson, Stuart N ^a   Hervé, Francisco ^b  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Fission track dating; Gondwana margin; Metamorphic complexes; Southern Chile; U Pb SHRIMP ages

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; FISSION TRACK DATING; GONDWANA; JURASSIC; METAMORPHISM; SHRIMP DATING; URANIUM-LEAD DATING;

CHILE; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 14944354976     PISSN: 07160208     EISSN: 0717618X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4067/S0716-02082002000200007     Document Type: Article

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