Palaeoproterozoic U-Pb SHRIMP zircon age from basement rocks in Bangladesh: A possible remnant of the Columbia supercontinent

Comptes Rendus - Geoscience

Volumn 339, Issue 16, 2007, Pages 979-986

  Hossain, Ismail ^a,b   Tsunogae, Toshiaki ^a   Rajesh, Hariharan M ^c   Chen, Bin ^d   Arakawa, Yoji ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF RAJSHAHI   (Bangladesh)

^c UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG   (South Africa)

^d PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Bangladesh; Basement rock; Columbia supercontinent; Palaeoproterozoic; U Pb SHRIMP age

Indexed keywords

BASEMENT ROCK; DIORITE; GEOCHRONOLOGY; PROTEROZOIC; SUPERCONTINENT; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

ANTARCTICA; ASIA; AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; BANGLADESH; CENTRAL INDIAN TECTONIC ZONE; EAST ANTARCTICA; EURASIA; INDIA; INDIAN SHIELD; MEGHALAYA; SHILLONG PLATEAU; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 36849018428     PISSN: 16310713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crte.2007.09.014     Document Type: Article

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