Volcanic resurfacing and the early terrestrial crust: Zircon U-Pb and REE constraints from the Isua Greenstone Belt, southern West Greenland

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 240, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 276-290

  Kamber, Balz Samuel ^a,d   Whitehouse, Martin J ^b   Bolhar, Robert ^a   Moorbath, Stephen ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b SWEDISH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Basaltic resurfacing; Early Archaean; Hadean; Zircon dating

Indexed keywords

BASALTIC RESURFACING; VOLCANIC RESURFACING; ZIRCON DATING;

BASALT; GEOCHEMISTRY; MICA; SEDIMENTS; TRACE ELEMENTS; VOLCANOES; ZIRCON;

LITHOLOGY;

DATING METHOD; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GREENSTONE BELT;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC; GREENLAND; ISUA GREENSTONE BELT; WORLD;

EID: 28044455437     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2005.09.037     Document Type: Article

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