Jurassic sedimentation of the Miers Bluff Formation, Livingston Island, Antarctica: Evidence from SHRIMP U-Pb ages of detrital and plutonic zircons

Antarctic Science

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 229-238

  Hervé, Francisco ^a   Faúndez, Víctor ^a   Brix, Manfred ^b   Fanning, Mark ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Detrital zircon age spectra; Early Cretaceous plutonism; Hurd Peninsula; South Shetland Islands

Indexed keywords

BAJOCIAN; CHRONOLOGY; DETRITAL DEPOSIT; JURASSIC; PALEOZOIC; SANDSTONE; SEDIMENTATION; SHRIMP DATING; TECTONIC SETTING; TRIASSIC; VALANGINIAN; ZIRCON;

ANTARCTIC PENINSULA; ANTARCTICA; LIVINGSTON ISLAND; SOUTH SHETLAND ISLANDS; WEST ANTARCTICA;

RUMEX;

EID: 33744956598     PISSN: 09541020     EISSN: 13652079     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0954102006000277     Document Type: Article

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