Late Neoproterozoic amphibolite-facies metamorphism of a pre-Caledonian basement block in southwest Wedel Jarlsberg Land, Spitsbergen: New evidence from U-Th-Pb dating of monazite

Geological Magazine

Volumn 145, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 822-830

  Majka, Jaroslaw ^a   Mazur, Stanislaw ^b,d   Manecki, Maciej ^a   Czerny, Jerzy ^a   Holm, Daniel K ^c  

^a AGH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WROC AW   (Poland)

^c KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Kitson House   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Caledonides; Geochronology; Svalbard; Tectonics; Terranes

Indexed keywords

BUILDINGS; GEOCHRONOLOGY; LEAD ALLOYS; MICA; MONAZITE; PHOSPHATE MINERALS; TECTONICS; TERNARY ALLOYS; THORIUM ALLOYS;

AMPHIBOLITE-FACIES METAMORPHISM; CALEDONIDES; LATE NEOPROTEROZOIC; LITHO-STRATIGRAPHIC; METAMORPHIC AGE; PORPHYROBLASTS; SVALBARD; TERRANES;

URANIUM ALLOYS;

AMPHIBOLITE FACIES; DEVONIAN; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GREENSCHIST FACIES; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; METAMORPHISM; MONAZITE; PASSIVE MARGIN; PROTEROZOIC;

ARCTIC; CALEDONIDES; EURASIA; EUROPE; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

EID: 54049151284     PISSN: 00167568     EISSN: 14695081     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S001675680800530X     Document Type: Article

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