Electron microprobe U-Th-Pb monazite dating of the Transamazonian metamorphic overprint on Archean rocks from the Amapá Block, southeastern Guiana Shield, Northern Brazil

Journal of South American Earth Sciences

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 445-462

  da Rosa Costa, Lúcia T ^a   Lafon, Jean Michel ^b   Cocherie, Alain ^c   Delor, Claude ^c  

^a Geological Survey of Brazil   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARÁ   (Brazil)

^c BRGM   (France)

Author keywords

Amazonian craton; Electron microprobe; Monazite; Transamazonian orogenesis; U Th Pb dating

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBOLITE FACIES; ARCHEAN; BASEMENT ROCK; CRATON; DATING METHOD; ELECTRON PROBE ANALYSIS; EMPLACEMENT; GRANULITE FACIES; METAMORPHISM; MIGMATIZATION; MONAZITE; OROGENY; TECTONIC SETTING;

GUYANA SHIELD; SOUTH AMERICA; VENEZUELA;

EID: 57049156505     PISSN: 08959811     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsames.2008.05.007     Document Type: Article

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