Sub-million-year age resolution of Precambrian igneous events by thermal extraction-thermal ionization mass spectrometer Pb dating of zircon: Application to crystallization of the Sudbury impact melt sheet

Geology

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 383-386

  Davis, Donald W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Geochronology; Precambrian; Sudbury; TE TIMS; Thermal extraction thermal ionization mass spectrometry; U Pb; Zircon

Indexed keywords

IMPACT MELT; NEW APPROACHES; ZIRCON DATING;

EXTRACTION; IMPACT IONIZATION; LEAD; MASS SPECTROMETRY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; ZIRCON;

SILICATE MINERALS;

AGE DETERMINATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; EXTRACTION METHOD; GEOCHRONOLOGY; IONIZATION; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION; ISOTOPIC RATIO; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PRECAMBRIAN; SILICATE MELT; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; ONTARIO [CANADA]; SUDBURY;

EID: 46149103440     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G24502A.1     Document Type: Article

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