Detrital rutile geochemistry and thermometry as guides to provenance of jurassic-paleocene sandstones of the norwegian sea

Journal of Sedimentary Research

Volumn 79, Issue 7-8, 2009, Pages 540-553

  Morton, Andrew ^a,b   Chenery, Simon ^c  

^a Giddanmu   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOCHEMISTRY; GEOCHRONOLOGY; LASER ABLATION; LITHOLOGY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; PETROLEUM PROSPECTING; SANDSTONE; SILICATE MINERALS; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; TRACERS; WEATHERING; ZIRCON;

AMPHIBOLITE FACIES; HYDROCARBON EXPLORATION; LASER ABLATION INDUCTIVELY-COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRIES; METAMORPHIC GRADE; PROVENANCE TRACERS; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; WEATHERING CONDITIONS; WESTERN GNEISS REGION;

OXIDE MINERALS;

DETRITAL DEPOSIT; DIAGENESIS; ECLOGITE; GEOCHEMISTRY; JURASSIC; LASER; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METAMORPHIC FACIES; PALEOCENE; RUTILE; SAMPLING; SANDSTONE; TRACE ELEMENT;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC OCEAN; GREENLAND; NORWEGIAN SEA;

EID: 69149097788     PISSN: 15271404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2110/jsr.2009.054     Document Type: Article

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