High-T granulites and polymetamorphism in the southern Arunta Region, central Australia: Evidence for a 1.64 Ga accretional event

Precambrian Research

Volumn 142, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 1-27

  Scrimgeour, Ian R ^a   Kinny, Peter D ^b   Close, Dorothy F ^a   Edgoose, Christine J ^a  

^a Northern Territory Geological Survey   (Australia)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Arunta; Granulite facies metamorphism; Palaeoproterozoic; SHRIMP geochronology

Indexed keywords

ACCRETION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GRANULITE FACIES; METAMORPHISM; OROGENY; PROTEROZOIC;

ARUNTA BLOCK; AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; NORTHERN TERRITORY; WORLD;

EID: 27744573831     PISSN: 03019268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.precamres.2005.08.005     Document Type: Article

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