Detrital zircon ages from the islands of Inousses and Psara, Aegean Sea, Greece: Constraints on depositional age and provenance

Geological Magazine

Volumn 145, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 886-891

  Meinhold, Guido ^a   Frei, Dirk ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Aegean Sea; Palaeotethys; Sediment provenance; U Pb zircon geochronology

Indexed keywords

BINARY ALLOYS; DEPOSITION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; LEAD ALLOYS; MICA;

AEGEAN SEA; DETRITAL ZIRCON; LATE NEOPROTEROZOIC; LATE PERMIAN; MICA SCHISTS; PALAEOTETHYS; SEDIMENT PROVENANCE; U-PB ZIRCON GEOCHRONOLOGIES;

ZIRCON;

CARBONIFEROUS; GONDWANA; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA METHOD; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PROTEROZOIC; PROVENANCE; TETHYS; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

AEGEAN SEA; EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

PSARA;

EID: 53949106070     PISSN: 00167568     EISSN: 14695081     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0016756808005505     Document Type: Article

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