U-Pb tantalite, Re-Os molybdenite, and 40Ar/39Ar muscovite dating of the Brazil Lake pegmatite, Nova Scotia: A possible shear-zone related origin for an LCT-type pegmatite

Atlantic Geology

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 17-29

  Kontak, Daniel J ^a   Creaser, Robert A ^b   Heaman, Larry M ^b   Archibald, Douglas A ^c  

^a NOVA SCOTIA DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADIAN; ARGON-ARGON DATING; PEGMATITE; RHENIUM-OSMIUM DATING; URANIUM-LEAD DATING;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; NOVA SCOTIA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 24344450643     PISSN: 08435561     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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