U-Pb and Lu-Hf isotope record of detrital zircon grains from the Limpopo Belt - Evidence for crustal recycling at the Hadean to early-Archean transition

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Volumn 72, Issue 21, 2008, Pages 5304-5329

  Zeh, Armin ^a   Gerdes, Axel ^b   Klemd, Reiner ^a,c   Barton Jr , J M ^d,e  

^a Mineralogisches Institut   (Germany)

^b Institut fur Geowissenschaften   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FORT HARE   (South Africa)

^e NONE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HADEAN; HAFNIUM; LUTETIUM; PLATE TECTONICS; PROTOLITH; QUARTZITE; SOURCE ROCK; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

AFRICA; AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; JACK HILLS; LIMPOPO BELT; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WESTERN AUSTRALIA; ZIMBABWE CRATON;

EID: 53449093183     PISSN: 00167037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2008.07.033     Document Type: Article

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