Provenance of late Palaeozoic metasediments of the SW South American Gondwana margin: A combined U-Pb and Hf-isotope study of single detrital zircons

Journal of the Geological Society

Volumn 163, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 983-995

  Augustsson, Carita ^a   Münker, Carsten ^a,b   Bahlburg, Heinrich ^a   Fanning, C Mark ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBONIFEROUS; DETRITAL DEPOSIT; GONDWANA; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; METASEDIMENT; PROVENANCE; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

PATAGONIA; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 33750825858     PISSN: 00167649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/0016-76492005-149     Document Type: Article

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