New SHRIMP U-Pb data from the Famatina Complex: Constraining Early-Mid Ordovician Famatinian magmatism in the Sierras Pampeanas, Argentina

Geologica Acta

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 319-333

  Dahlquist, J A ^a   Pankhurst, R J ^b   Rapela, C W ^c   Galindo, C ^d   Alasino, P ^e   Fanning, C M ^f   Saavedra, J ^g   Baldo, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CÓRDOBA   (Argentina)

^b BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE LA PLATA   (Argentina)

^d Facultad de Ciencias Geológicas   (Spain)

^e Centro Regional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Transferencia Tecnologia   (Argentina)

^f AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^g INSTITUTO DE RECURSOS NATURALES Y AGROBIOLOGÍA DE SALAMANCA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Ensialic Basins; Famatina Complex; Magmatism; SHRIMP U Pb data

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITION; EMPLACEMENT; EXHUMATION; IGNEOUS ROCK; MAGMATISM; ORDOVICIAN; PARTIAL MELTING; SEDIMENTARY ROCK; SHRIMP DATING; SOURCE ROCK; URANIUM-LEAD DATING;

EID: 65749106170     PISSN: 16956133     EISSN: 16965728     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1344/105.000000260     Document Type: Article

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