Zircon dating of oceanic crustal accretion

Science

Volumn 323, Issue 5917, 2009, Pages 1048-1050

  Lissenberg, C Johan ^a,b,d   Rioux, Matthew ^c   Shimizu, Nobumichi ^b   Bowring, Samuel A ^c   Mével, Catherine ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEAD; URANIUM; ZIRCONIUM;

ACCRETION; CRYSTALLIZATION; FRACTURE ZONE; GABBRO; OCEANIC CRUST; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CRYSTALLIZATION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROCK;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE;

EID: 60749084193     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1167330     Document Type: Article

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26. Supported by a grant from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Deep Ocean Exploration Institute (N.S., C.J.L.). U-Pb geochronology was supported in part by NSF grant OCE-0727914 (S.A.B.). We thank H. Dick for discussions, J. Honnorez for providing CH78 cruise information, and two anonymous reviewers for their comments. Figure 1 was made using GeoMapApp. This is IPGP contribution 2457.