Detrital zircon U-Pb ages provide provenance and chronostratigraphic information from Eocene synorogenic deposits in northwestern Argentina

Geology

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 323-326

  DeCelles, P G ^a   Carrapa, B ^b   Gehrels, G E ^a  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Andes; Argentina; Syntectonic sedimentation; U Pb geochronology

Indexed keywords

EOCENE SYNOROGENIC DEPOSITS; PALEONTOLOGY; SYNTECTONIC SEDIMENTATION;

GEOCHRONOLOGY; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; SEDIMENTATION; STRATIGRAPHY; TECTONICS; ZIRCON;

PETROLOGY;

CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; DETRITAL DEPOSIT; EOCENE; PROVENANCE; SEDIMENTARY ROCK; SEDIMENTATION; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

ARGENTINA; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 34147130294     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G23322A.1     Document Type: Article

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