Detrital zircon ages and Nd isotopic data from the southern Appalachian crystalline core, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Tennessee: New provenance constraints for part of the Laurentian margin

Memoir of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 197, Issue , 2004, Pages 459-475

  Bream, Brendan R ^a   Hatcher Jr , Robert D ^a   Miller, Calvin F ^b   Fullagar, Paul D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Blue Ridge; Detrital zircons; Inner Piedmont; Provenance; Rodinia; Southern Appalachians

Indexed keywords

BUILDINGS; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; ISOTOPES; LANDFORMS; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; VOLCANIC ROCKS; ZIRCON;

BLUE RIDGES; DETRITAL ZIRCON; INNER PIEDMONT; PROVENANCE; RODINIA; SOUTHERN APPALACHIANS;

SILICATE MINERALS;

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CORE ANALYSIS; CRYSTALLINITY; DETRITAL DEPOSIT; GEOCHRONOLOGY; LAURENTIA; NEODYMIUM ISOTOPE; PIEDMONT; PROVENANCE; RODINIA; ZIRCON;

APPALACHIANS; BLUE RIDGE MOUNTAINS; GEORGIA; NORTH CAROLINA; SOUTH CAROLINA; TENNESSEE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33745614745     PISSN: 00721069     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-1197-5.459     Document Type: Article

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