Accretion of juvenile crust at the Early Palaeozoic Antarctic margin of Gondwana: Geochemical and geochronological evidence from granulite xenoliths

Terra Nova

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 151-161

  Gemelli, M ^a   Rocchi, S ^a   Di Vincenzo, G ^b   Petrelli, M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCRETION; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; GEOCHEMISTRY; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GEODYNAMICS; GONDWANA; GRANULITE; ISLAND ARC; OCEANIC CRUST; OROGENY; PALEOZOIC; TECTONIC SETTING; TURBIDITE; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; XENOLITH;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 66349128213     PISSN: 09544879     EISSN: 13653121     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3121.2009.00868.x     Document Type: Article

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