Relicts of Earth's earliest crust: U-Pb, Lu-Hf, and morphological characteristics of >3.7 Ga detrital zircon of the western Canadian Shield

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 405, Issue , 2006, Pages 75-89

  Hartlaub, R P ^a,c   Heaman, L M ^a   Simonetti, A ^a   Bohm C O ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b Manitoba Geological Survey   (Canada)

^c BRITISH COLUMBIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Archean; Geochronology; Hafnium; Superior province; Zircon

Indexed keywords

BINARY ALLOYS; GEOCHRONOLOGY; HAFNIUM; HAFNIUM ALLOYS; LEAD ALLOYS; LUTETIUM ALLOYS; SILICATE MINERALS; URANIUM ALLOYS; ZIRCON;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARCHEAN; CANADIAN SHIELDS; CONTINENTAL CRUSTS; CRUST FORMATIONS; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; MORPHOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTIC; SUPERIOR PROVINCE;

GALLIUM;

AGE STRUCTURE; ARCHEAN; CONTINENTAL CRUST; CRUST; CRYSTALLIZATION; DETRITUS; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GNEISS; HAFNIUM; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; METAGREYWACKE; QUARTZITE; REWORKING; ZIRCON;

ARCTIC; AUSTRALIA; CANADA; CANADIAN SHIELD; CHURCHILL PROVINCE; GREENLAND; JACK HILLS; RAE PROVINCE; SUPERIOR PROVINCE; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

ACASTA;

EID: 73949137336     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2006.2405(05)     Document Type: Article

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