Ion micropobe U-Pb dating and REE analysis of apatite from kerogen-rich silica dike from North Pole area, Pilbara Craton, Western Australia

Geochemical Journal

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 243-254

  Nishizawa, Manabu ^a   Terada, Kentaro ^b   Ueno, Yuichiro ^a   Sano, Yuji ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Apatite; Early Archean; Kerogen rich silica dike; Pilbara; REE; U Pb

Indexed keywords

APATITE; ARCHEAN; DIKE; GEOCHEMISTRY; RARE EARTH ELEMENT; SILICA; URANIUM-LEAD DATING;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; PILBARA BLOCK; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 4644269595     PISSN: 00167002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2343/geochemj.38.243     Document Type: Article

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