The paleo-Lena River - 200 m.y. of transcontinental zircon transport in Siberia

Geology

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 699-702

  Prokopiev, Andrei V ^a   Toro, Jaime ^b   Miller, Elizabeth L ^c   Gehrels, George E ^d  

^a DIAMOND AND PRECIOUS METAL GEOLOGY INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^b WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Detrital zircon; Sedimentary provenance; Siberia; Verkhoyansk

Indexed keywords

ALDAN SHIELDS; ARCTIC OCEANS; CENTRAL ASIA; CONSISTENT; DETRITAL ZIRCON; DETRITAL ZIRCONS; DRAINAGE SYSTEMS; FOLD BELTS; GRANITOIDS; JURASSIC; LIFE SPANS; PLATE BOUNDARIES; PLUTONS; PROTEROZOIC; RIVER SYSTEMS; SEDIMENTARY PROVENANCE; SIBERIA; SIBERIAN PLATFORMS; SYSTEMATIC CHANGES; VERKHOYANSK;

DRAINAGE; GEOCHRONOLOGY; LEAD; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SILICATE MINERALS; ZIRCON;

RIVERS;

CRETACEOUS; JURASSIC; PASSIVE MARGIN; PLATE BOUNDARY; PROVENANCE; SANDSTONE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SILICICLASTIC DEPOSIT; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

ALDAN SHIELD; EURASIA; LENA RIVER; NORTH AMERICA; PENNSYLVANIA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SAKHA; SAYAN MOUNTAINS; SIBERIA; SIBERIAN PLATFORM; UNITED STATES; VERKHOYANSK;

EID: 54949111741     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G24924A.1     Document Type: Article

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