The first integrated use of in situ U-Pb geochronology and geochemical analyses to determine long-distance transport of glacial erratics from mainland Canada into the western Arctic Archipelago

Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 101-122

  Doornbos, Chris ^a   Heaman, Larry M ^a   Doupé, Jonathan P ^a   England, John ^a   Simonetti, Antonio ^a   Lajeunesse, Patrick ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b CENTRE D ÉTUDES NORDIQUES   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHEAN; ARCTIC ARCHIPELAGOS; CANADIAN ARCTIC ARCHIPELAGOS; CRYSTALLIZATION AGES; GEOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; HIGH PRECISION; ICE FLOWS; ICE THICKNESS; IN-SITU; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETERS; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUMS; LAURENTIDE ICE SHEETS; LONG-DISTANCE TRANSPORTS; MELVILLE ISLANDS; NUMERICAL MODELING; PALEOPROTEROZOIC; THIN SECTIONS; TOPOGRAPHIC FEATURES; U-PB GEOCHRONOLOGIES; U-PB ZIRCON AGES;

ANALYTICAL GEOCHEMISTRY; ARCTIC ENGINEERING; GALLIUM; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GLACIERS; GRANITE; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA; LASER ABLATION; LEAD; LEAD ALLOYS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; POTASSIUM; QUARTZ; SILICATE MINERALS; ZIRCON;

ICE;

ARCHIPELAGO; CRYSTALLIZATION; ERRATIC; GEOCHEMISTRY; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GLACIATION; GLACIER; LAURENTIDE ICE SHEET; LONG RANGE TRANSPORT; PROTEROZOIC; URANIUM-LEAD DATING;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; MELVILLE ISLAND [TIWI ISLANDS]; NORTHERN TERRITORY; TIWI ISLANDS;

EID: 65349184596     PISSN: 00084077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/E09-002     Document Type: Article

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