Gold- and diamond-bearing White Hills Gravel, St Arnaud district, Victoria: Age and provenance based on U-Pb dating of zircon and rutile

Australian Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 609-628

  Birch, W D ^a   Barron, L M ^b   Magee, C ^c   Sutherland, F L ^b  

^a MUSEUM VICTORIA   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cretaceous; Deposition model; Diamond; Gold; Provenance; Rutile; Sapphire; SHRIMP; Victoria; White Hills Gravel; zircon

Indexed keywords

ANATASE; ANDALUSITE; CENOZOIC; CRETACEOUS; DEVONIAN; DIAMOND; FISSION TRACK DATING; GOLD; GRANITE; MESOZOIC; PLACER DEPOSIT; PROVENANCE; RUTILE; SAPPHIRE; SHRIMP DATING; TOURMALINE; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; NEW SOUTH WALES; VICTORIA [AUSTRALIA];

EID: 34249805713     PISSN: 08120099     EISSN: 14400952     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08120090701188996     Document Type: Article

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