U-Pb zircon dating of basement inliers within the Moine supergroup, Scottish caledonides: Implications of Archaean protolith ages

Journal of the Geological Society

Volumn 165, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 807-815

  Friend, C R L ^a   Strachan, Rob A ^b   Kinny, P D ^c  

^a University of Portsmouth ^*  (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^c CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DETERMINATION; ALLOCHTHON; ARCHEAN; CALEDONIAN OROGENY; INLIER; PROTEROZOIC; PROTOLITH; URANIUM-LEAD DATING;

CALEDONIDES; EURASIA; EUROPE; MOINE THRUST ZONE; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 48249154218     PISSN: 00167649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/0016-76492007-125     Document Type: Article

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