Relative timing of transcurrent displacements in northern Gondwana: U-Pb laser ablation ICP-MS zircon and monazite geochronology of gneisses and sheared granites from the western Iberian Massif (Portugal)

Gondwana Research

Volumn 17, Issue 2-3, 2010, Pages 461-481

  Pereira, M F ^a   Silva, J B ^b   Drost, K ^c   Chichorro, M ^d   Apraiz, A ^e  

^a Escola de Ciências e Tecnologia   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^d UNIVERSIDADE NOVA DE LISBOA   (Portugal)

^e UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

Author keywords

Coimbra C rdoba shear zone; Northern Gondwana; Pangaea assembly; Porto Tomar fault zone; Transcurrent deformation; Variscan orogeny

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL COLLISION; CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; DISPLACEMENT; DUCTILE DEFORMATION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GNEISS; GONDWANA; GRANITE; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA METHOD; METAMORPHISM; MONAZITE; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

IBERIAN MASSIF; PORTUGAL;

EID: 74449084231     PISSN: 1342937X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gr.2009.08.006     Document Type: Article

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