Tracing the Caples Terrane through New Zealand using Detrital zircon age patterns and radiogenic isotope signatures

New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 223-245

  Adams, C J ^a   Campbell, H J ^a   Griffin, W L ^b  

^a GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Caples Group; Caples Terrane; Detrital zircon; Metamorphic rocks; Pelorus Group; Provenance studies; Rb sr geochronology; Strontium isotopes; U Pb geochronology

Indexed keywords

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; COOLING; CRETACEOUS; DEPOCENTER; GEOCHEMISTRY; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GRAYWACKE; METASEDIMENTARY ROCK; PETROGRAPHY; RUBIDIUM-STRONTIUM DATING; SCHIST; STRONTIUM ISOTOPE; TERRANE; TRIASSIC; UPLIFT;

AUSTRALIA; CAPLES TERRANE; KING COUNTRY; LACHLAN FOLD BELT; NEW ENGLAND FOLD BELT; NEW ZEALAND; NORTH ISLAND; NORTHLAND; OTAGO; SOUTH ISLAND; TARANAKI; TORLESSE TERRANE;

EID: 72449153486     PISSN: 00288306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00288300909509888     Document Type: Article

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