Crustal zircons and mantle sulfides: Archean to Triassic events in the lithosphere beneath south-eastern Sicily

Lithos

Volumn 96, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 503-523

  Sapienza, Giovanna T ^a   Griffin, William L ^b   O'Reilly, Suzanne Y ^b   Morten, Lauro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Hf isotopes; Hyblean Plateau; In situ Re Os; Mantle sulfides; U Pb dating; Zircons

Indexed keywords

ARCHEAN; HYDROTHERMAL ACTIVITY; SULFIDE; TRIASSIC; ZIRCON;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SICILY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 34249752225     PISSN: 00244937     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lithos.2006.11.007     Document Type: Article

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