He-Pb double dating of detrital zircons from the Ganges and Indus Rivers: Implication for quantifying sediment recycling and provenance studies

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 237, Issue 3-4, 2005, Pages 402-432

  Campbell, Ian H ^a   Reiners, Peter W ^b   Allen, Charlotte M ^a   Nicolescu, Stefan ^b   Upadhyay, Rajeev ^c  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c KUMAUN UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Detrital zircons; Double dating; Ganges; He Pb dating; Indus; Sedimentary recycling

Indexed keywords

DETRITAL ZIRCONS; DOUBLE DATING; EXHUMATION RATE; SEDIMENT PROVENANCE; SEDIMENT RECYCLING;

CALCULATIONS; EROSION; GEOCHEMISTRY; GEOLOGY; HELIUM; LEAD; RECYCLING; SEDIMENTS; TRACE ANALYSIS; ZIRCON;

RIVERS;

GEOCHRONOLOGY;

EID: 24144496861     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2005.06.043     Document Type: Article

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