4.2 Ga zircon xenocryst in an Acasta gneiss from northwestern Canada: Evidence for early continental crust

Geology

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 245-248

  Iizuka, Tsuyoshi ^a   Horie, Kenji ^b   Komiya, Tsuyoshi ^a   Maruyama, Shigenori ^a   Hirata, Takafumi ^a   Hidaka, Hiroshi ^b   Windley, Brian F ^c  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acasta gneiss complex; Ancient zircon; Crustal reworking; Hadean; Laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry; Sensitive high resolution ion microprobe; U Pb dating

Indexed keywords

ACASTA GNEISS COMPLEX; CANADA; CRUSTAL REWORKING; HADEAN; SENSITIVE HIGH-RESOLUTION ION MICROPROBE; GNEISS COMPLEXES; LASER ABLATION INDUCTIVELY-COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRIES; U-PB DATING;

CATHODOLUMINESCENCE; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA; LASER ABLATION; LEAD; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; URANIUM; ZIRCON; ABLATION; BINARY ALLOYS; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GRANITE; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY; ION MICROSCOPES; SILICATE MINERALS; TRACE ELEMENTS; URANIUM ALLOYS;

GEOLOGY; LEAD ALLOYS;

ARCHEAN; CONTINENTAL CRUST; GNEISS; CRATON; HADEAN; ION MICROPROBE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; TRACE ELEMENT; ZIRCON;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; AUSTRALIA; WESTERN AUSTRALIA; YILGARN BLOCK;

ACASTA;

EID: 33645715015     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G22124.1     Document Type: Article

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