Provenance characteristics of Scandinavian basement terrains: Constraints from detrital zircon ages in modern river sediments

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 210, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 61-85

  Morton, Andrew ^a,b   Fanning, Mark ^c   Milner, Paul ^d  

^a Giddanmu   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d BP gården ^*  (Norway)

Author keywords

Caledonian Nappes; Cretaceous; Fennoscandian Shield; Provenance; Zircon ages

Indexed keywords

BASEMENT ROCK; CRETACEOUS; DETRITAL DEPOSIT; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; METASEDIMENTARY ROCK; PROVENANCE; SANDSTONE; TERRAIN; ZIRCON;

ARCTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SHIELD; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; NORWEGIAN SEA; SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 51549117657     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2008.07.001     Document Type: Article

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