High abundance of early Archaean grains and the age distribution of detrital zircons in a sillimanite-bearing quartzite from Mt Narryer, Western Australia

Precambrian Research

Volumn 150, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 201-220

  Pidgeon, R T ^a   Nemchin, A A ^b  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ancient zircons; Early Archaean; Narryer Terrane; Western Australia; Yilgarn Craton; Zircon dating

Indexed keywords

AGE STRUCTURE; ARCHEAN; DETRITAL DEPOSIT; METAMORPHISM; QUARTZITE; SILLIMANITE; ZIRCON;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; MOUNT NARRYER; WESTERN AUSTRALIA; YILGARN BLOCK;

EID: 33749616654     PISSN: 03019268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.precamres.2006.07.008     Document Type: Article

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