Ancient Laurentian detrital zircon in the closing Iapetus ocean, Southern Uplands terrane, Scotland

Geology

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 527-530

  Waldron, John W F ^a   Floyd, James D ^b   Simonetti, Antonio ^a   Heaman, Larry M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Caledonides; Detrital zircon geochronology; Provenance; Southern Uplands; Tectonics

Indexed keywords

CALEDONIDES; DETRITAL ZIRCON GEOCHRONOLOGY; PROVENANCE; SOUTHERN UPLANDS; TECTONIC SETTINGS;

CAVITY RESONATORS; GALLIUM; IGNEOUS ROCKS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; LANDFORMS; LEAD; LEAD ALLOYS; SANDSTONE; SILICATE MINERALS; TECTONICS;

ZIRCON;

ACCRETION; IAPETUS OCEAN; ORDOVICIAN; PROVENANCE; RIFTING; SUBDUCTION; TECTONIC SETTING; URANIUM-LEAD DATING;

CALEDONIDES; EURASIA; EUROPE; SCOTLAND; SOUTHERN UPLANDS; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 50349101713     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G24763A.1     Document Type: Article

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