Paleoproterozoic sediment recycling during multiphase orogenic evolution in Fennoscandia, the Tampere and Pirkanmaa belts, Finland

Precambrian Research

Volumn 174, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 310-336

  Lahtinen, R ^a   Huhma, H ^a   Kahkonen Y ^b   Manttari I ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF FINLAND   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Detrital zircon geochronology; Nd isotopes; Sediment geochemistry; Sediment recycling; Svecofennian; Tectonic model

Indexed keywords

ARCHEAN; GEOCHEMISTRY; GEOCHRONOLOGY; METAMORPHISM; OROGENY; RECYCLING; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS; SEDIMENTARY ROCK; SVECOFENNIAN; TURBIDITE; VOLCANIC ROCK;

EURASIA; FENNOSCANDIA;

EID: 70349862085     PISSN: 03019268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.precamres.2009.08.008     Document Type: Article

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