Timing of crust formation, deposition of supracrustal sequences, and Transamazonian and Brasiliano metamorphism in the East Pernambuco belt (Borborema Province, NE Brazil): Implications for western Gondwana assembly

Precambrian Research

Volumn 149, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 197-216

  Neves, Sérgio P ^a   Bruguier, Olivier ^b   Vauchez, Alain ^b   Bosch, Delphine ^b   Silva, José Maurício Rangel da ^a   Mariano, Gorki ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

^b UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

Author keywords

Brasiliano orogeny; Laser ablation ICP MS; Neoproterozoic belts; Transamazonian orogeny; Zircon U Pb geochronology

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBOLITE; AMPHIBOLITE FACIES; ARCHEAN; CRUST; CRYSTALLIZATION; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; DOMAIN STRUCTURE; FELSIC ROCK; FOLIATION; GONDWANA; GRANODIORITE; LEUCOSOME; MAFIC ROCK; MAGMATISM; METAIGNEOUS ROCK; METAMORPHISM; METASEDIMENTARY ROCK; SHEAR ZONE; SUPRACRUSTAL ROCK; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

AFRICA; BORBOREMA; BRAZIL; CAMEROON; NIGERIA; PERNAMBUCO; SAO FRANCISCO CRATON; SOUTH AMERICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA;

EID: 33748414590     PISSN: 03019268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.precamres.2006.06.005     Document Type: Article

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