Late Cambrian-Early Ordovician Gondwanan terranes in the Romanian Carpathians: A zircon U-Pb provenance study

Gondwana Research

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 119-133

  Balintoni, I ^a   Balica, C ^a   Ducea, M N ^b   Chen, Fukun ^c   Hann, H P ^d   Sabliovschi V ^e  

^a BABE BOLYAI UNIVERSITY   (Romania)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^e ALEXANDRU IOAN CUZA UNIVERSITY OF IASI   (Romania)

Author keywords

Carpathian; Detrital zircon geochronology; Ordovician; Pre Variscan; Provenance; Thermotectonic

Indexed keywords

AGE DETERMINATION; CAMBRIAN; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GONDWANA; ORDOVICIAN; PROVENANCE; TERRANE; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

CARPATHIANS; ROMANIA;

EID: 67349269611     PISSN: 1342937X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gr.2009.01.007     Document Type: Article

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