Precise age of the platiniferous merensky reef, bushveld complex, South Africa, by the U-Pb zircon chemical abrasion ID-TIMS technique

Economic Geology

Volumn 103, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 465-471

  Scoates, James S ^a   Friedman, Richard M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABRASION; CHEMICAL ELEMENTS; CHROMITE; CHROMIUM; CHROMIUM COMPOUNDS; CRYSTALLIZATION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; LANDFORMS; LEAD ALLOYS; MASS SPECTROMETERS; MICA; MINERALS; MINING; NANOCRYSTALLINE ALLOYS; OXIDE MINERALS; PLATINUM; PLATINUM COMPOUNDS; REEFS; SILICATE MINERALS; THERMAL INSULATING MATERIALS; TITANIUM OXIDES; TRANSITION METALS; VANADIUM COMPOUNDS; ZIRCON;

BOTSWANA; BUSHVELD COMPLEX; CHROMITITE; COOLING AGE; CRYSTALLIZATION AGE; DIRECT CONTACTS; LAYERED ROCKS; MAGMA TIC ACTIVITY; MAGMATISM; MERENSKY REEF; PLATINUM GROUP ELEMENTS; SOUTH AFRICA; THIN SECTIONS; U-PB DATING; U-PB ZIRCON;

GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS;

AGE DETERMINATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; LAYERED INTRUSION; MAGMATISM; PLATINUM GROUP ELEMENT; RUTILE; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

AFRICA; BUSHVELD COMPLEX; MERENSKY REEF; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 53749083818     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gsecongeo.103.3.465     Document Type: Article

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