Detrital zircon provenance constraints on the evolution of the Harts Range Metamorphic Complex (central Australia): Links to the Centralian Superbasin

Journal of the Geological Society

Volumn 162, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 777-787

  Buick, Ian S ^a   Hand, Martin ^b   Williams, Ian S ^c   Mawby, Jo ^b   Miller, Jodie A ^d   Nicoll, Robert S ^c  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Central Australia; Metamorphism; SHRIMP; Tectonics; Zircon provenance

Indexed keywords

METAMORPHIC FACIES; METAMORPHISM; PROVENANCE;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 24644447056     PISSN: 00167649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/0016-764904-044     Document Type: Article

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