Use of U-Pb ages of detrital zircons to infer maximum depositional ages of strata: A test against a Colorado Plateau Mesozoic database

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 288, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 115-125

  Dickinson, William R ^a   Gehrels, George E ^a  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

chronostratigraphy; Colorado Plateau; correlation; Mesozoic; U Pb geochronology; zircon

Indexed keywords

CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; COLORADO PLATEAU; CORRELATION; MESOZOIC; U-PB GEOCHRONOLOGY;

GEOCHRONOLOGY; LEAD; SILICATE MINERALS; STRATIGRAPHY;

ZIRCON;

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; CORRELATION; DEPOSITION; DETRITAL DEPOSIT; GEOCHRONOLOGY; MESOZOIC; SANDSTONE; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

COLORADO PLATEAU; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 70350754324     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2009.09.013     Document Type: Article

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