Impact of differential zircon fertility of granitoid basement rocks in North America on age populations of detrital zircons and implications for granite petrogenesis

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 275, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 80-92

  Dickinson, William R ^a  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

anorogenic; granite; Grenville; petrogenesis; zircon; zirconium

Indexed keywords

ANOROGENIC; ARCHEAN; AREAL DISTRIBUTION; ATLANTIC; BASEMENT ROCKS; DETRITAL ZIRCONS; DIFFERENT MODES; GRANITIC ROCKS; GRANITOIDS; GRENVILLE; HIGH FIELD STRENGTH ELEMENTS; NEOPROTEROZOIC; NORTH AMERICA; ORDER-OF MAGNITUDES; PALEOPROTEROZOIC; PETROGENESIS; PLUTONS; S OURCE ROCKS; SEDIMENT SOURCES; ZIRCON CONTENTS; ZIRCON SAND;

BUILDINGS; FOUNDATIONS; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GRANITE; MINERALS; ROCKS; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SILICATE MINERALS; ZIRCON; ZIRCONIUM;

IGNEOUS ROCKS;

BASEMENT ROCK; GRANITOID; GRENVILLIAN OROGENY; PETROGENESIS; ZIRCON; ZIRCONIUM;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 53249085796     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2008.08.003     Document Type: Article

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