U-Pb zircon geochronology of late Neoproterozoic-Early Cambrian granitoids in Iran: Implications for paleogeography, magmatism, and exhumation history of Iranian basement

Tectonophysics

Volumn 451, Issue 1-4, 2008, Pages 71-96

  Hassanzadeh, Jamshid ^a,e   Stockli, Daniel F ^b   Horton, Brian K ^c,e   Axen, Gary J ^d,e   Stockli, Lisa D ^b   Grove, Marty ^e   Schmitt, Axel K ^e   Walker, J Douglas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^d NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Continental basement; Doran granite; Exhumation; Gondwana; U Pb dating; Zircon

Indexed keywords

BASEMENT ROCK; CAMBRIAN; CRYSTALLINE ROCK; CRYSTALLIZATION; EXHUMATION; GONDWANA; GRANITOID; MAGMATISM; ORTHOGNEISS; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PAN AFRICAN OROGENY; PROTEROZOIC; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

AFRICA; ARABIAN PENINSULA; ARABIAN SHIELD; ASIA; ELBURZ; EURASIA; IRAN; KOPET-DAGH BASIN; MIDDLE EAST; NUBIAN SHIELD; SANANDAJ-SIRJAN BELT;

EID: 41349105103     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2007.11.062     Document Type: Article

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