SHRIMP U-Pb zircon geochronology of high-grade rocks and charnockites from the eastern Amery Ice Shelf and southwestern Prydz Bay, East Antarctica: Constraints on Late Mesoproterozoic to Cambrian tectonothermal events related to supercontinent assembly

Gondwana Research

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 342-361

  Liu, Xiaochun ^a   Zhao, Yue ^a   Song, Biao ^b   Liu, Jian ^a   Cui, Jianjun ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MINERAL RESOURCES   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Charnockite; East Antarctica; Late Mesoproterozoic Early Neoproterozoic; Late Neoproterozoic Cambrian; Tectonothermal event

Indexed keywords

CAMBRIAN; CHARNOCKITE; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; GEOCHRONOLOGY; OROGENY; PROTEROZOIC; SHRIMP DATING; SUPERCONTINENT; TECTONIC SETTING; THERMAL STRUCTURE; URANIUM-LEAD DATING;

AMERY ICE SHELF; ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA; PRYDZ BAY;

EID: 67650879005     PISSN: 1342937X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gr.2009.02.003     Document Type: Article

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