Provenance of Lower Cretaceous sandstones onshore and offshore Nova Scotia from electron microprobe geochronology and chemical variation of detrital monazite

Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 366-379

  Pe Piper, Georgia ^a   MacKay, R M ^b  

^a SAINT MARY S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON PROBE MICROANALYSIS; MONAZITE; RARE EARTH ELEMENTS; SANDSTONE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTS;

CHEMICAL ZONING; MIGMATITE; PALEOGEOGRAPHY;

GEOCHRONOLOGY;

CRETACEOUS; DISPERSAL; ELECTRON PROBE ANALYSIS; GEOCHRONOLOGY; MONAZITE; PROVENANCE; SANDSTONE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; NOVA SCOTIA;

EID: 33947216180     PISSN: 00074802     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gscpgbull.54.4.366     Document Type: Article

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