Geology and zircon geochronology of the Acasta Gneiss Complex, northwestern Canada: New constraints on its tectonothermal history

Precambrian Research

Volumn 153, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 179-208

  Iizuka, Tsuyoshi ^a   Komiya, Tsuyoshi ^a   Ueno, Yuichiro ^a   Katayama, Ikuo ^a   Uehara, Yosuke ^a   Maruyama, Shigenori ^a   Hirata, Takafumi ^a   Johnson, Simon P ^b   Dunkley, Daniel J ^c  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF POLAR RESEARCH   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acasta gneiss; Ancient zircon; Crustal reworking; Hadean; LA ICPMS; U Pb dating

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DEFORMATION; DIORITE; EMPLACEMENT; GEOLOGICAL MAPPING; GNEISS; IGNEOUS INTRUSION; LITHOLOGY; METAMORPHISM; OUTCROP; PRECAMBRIAN; PROTOLITH; TEPHROCHRONOLOGY; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHWEST TERRITORIES;

ACASTA;

EID: 33846918408     PISSN: 03019268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.precamres.2006.11.017     Document Type: Article

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