SHRIMP-RG U-Pb isotopic systematics of zircon from the Angel Lake orthogneiss, East Humboldt Range, Nevada: Is this really archean crust?

Geosphere

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 963-975

  Premo, Wayne R ^a   Castiñeiras, Pedro ^b   Wooden, Joseph L ^c  

^a DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHEAN; CRETACEOUS; PROTEROZOIC; SHRIMP DATING; TRACE ELEMENT; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

NEVADA; NORTH AMERICA; RUBY MOUNTAINS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 57149140891     PISSN: 1553-040     EISSN: 1553040X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/GES00164.1     Document Type: Article

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