Caledonian anatexis of grenvillian crust: A U/Pb study of Albert I Land, NW Svalbard

Norsk Geologisk Tidsskrift

Volumn 89, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 173-191

  Myhre, Per Inge ^a,b   Corfu, Fernando ^a   Andresen, Arild ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALEDONIAN OROGENY; DETRITAL DEPOSIT; GRANITOID; GRENVILLIAN OROGENY; IGNEOUS INTRUSION; METASEDIMENTARY ROCK; MIGMATITE; ORTHOGNEISS; TITANITE; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

ARCTIC; CALEDONIDES; EURASIA; EUROPE; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

EID: 70849136815     PISSN: 0029196X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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