U-Pb zircon geochronology using LA-ICP-MS in the North Pole Dome, Pilbara Craton, Western Australia: A new tectonic growth model for the Archean Chert/Greenstone succession

International Geology Review

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-14

  Kitajima, Kouki ^a,b   Hirata, Takafumi ^a   Maruyama, Shigenori ^a   Yamanashi, Toshio ^a   Sano, Yuji ^b   Liou, Juhn G ^c  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHEAN; CATHODOLUMINESCENCE; FELSIC ROCK; GEOCHRONOLOGY; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA METHOD; MASS SPECTROMETRY; URANIUM-LEAD DATING;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; NORTH POLE DOME; PILBARA BLOCK; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 38849108755     PISSN: 00206814     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2747/0020-6814.50.1.1     Document Type: Article

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