Post-collisional tectonomagmatic evolution in the northern Arabian-Nubian Shield: Time constraints from ion-probe U-Pb dating of zircon

Journal of the Geological Society

Volumn 166, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 71-85

  Be'eri Shlevin, Yaron ^a   Katzir, Yaron ^a   Whitehouse, Martin ^b  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b SWEDISH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOCHRONOLOGY; MAGMATISM; PALEOZOIC; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

AFRICA; ARABIAN PENINSULA; ARABIAN SHIELD; ASIA; EURASIA; MIDDLE EAST; NUBIAN SHIELD;

EID: 69249199543     PISSN: 00167649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/0016-76492007-169     Document Type: Article

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