Contribution of pre Pan-African crust to formation of the Arabian Nubian shield: New secondary ionization mass spectrometry U-Pb and O studies of zircon

Geology

Volumn 37, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 899-902

  Be'eri Shlevin, Yaron ^a,b   Katzir, Yaron ^a   Whitehouse, Martin J ^b   Kleinhanns, Ilka C ^c  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b SWEDISH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DETRITAL ZIRCON; ISOTOPE ANALYSIS; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LOWER PALEOZOIC; NEOPROTEROZOIC; NEOPROTEROZOIC ROCKS; SECONDARY IONIZATION;

GALLIUM; GEOCHRONOLOGY; IONIZATION; ISOTOPES; LEAD; MASS SPECTROMETERS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NEODYMIUM; SILICATE MINERALS;

ZIRCON;

GEOCHRONOLOGY; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PROTEROZOIC; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

AFRICA; NUBIAN SHIELD;

EID: 70350418873     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G30206A.1     Document Type: Article

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