Detrital U-Pb zircon dating of lower Ordovician syn-arc-continent collision conglomerates in the Irish Caledonides

Tectonophysics

Volumn 479, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 165-174

  Clift, Peter D ^a   Carter, Andrew ^b   Draut, Amy E ^c   Long, Hoang Van ^a   Chew, David M ^d   Schouten, Hans A ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^d TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^e WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Caledonides; Collision; Erosion; Grampian; Zircon

Indexed keywords

ARC-CONTINENT COLLISION; BRITISH ISLES; CALEDONIDES; COLLISION; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; EROSION RATES; EXHUMATION RATES; GNEISS COMPLEXES; IRELAND; OCEANIC ISLANDS; ORDOVICIAN; PASSIVE CONTINENTAL MARGIN; SEDIMENTARY RECORDS; SOURCE REGION; U-PB DATING; U-PB ZIRCON;

FLUORINE CONTAINING POLYMERS; GEOCHRONOLOGY; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SILICATE MINERALS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONICS; ZIRCON;

CAVITY RESONATORS;

ACCRETION; ARC-CONTINENT COLLISION; CONGLOMERATE; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; EROSION RATE; EXHUMATION; ORDOVICIAN; OROGENY; PASSIVE MARGIN; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

CALEDONIDES; EURASIA; EUROPE; IRELAND; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 70449699993     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2008.07.018     Document Type: Article

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