Plate tectonic significance of Middle Cambrian and Ordovician siliciclastic rocks of the Bavarian Facies, Armorican Terrane Assemblage, Germany - U-Pb and Hf isotope evidence from detrital zircons

Gondwana Research

Volumn 17, Issue 2-3, 2010, Pages 223-235

  Bahlburg, Heinrich ^a   Vervoort, Jeffrey D ^b   DuFrane, S Andrew ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cadomian orogeny; Cambrian; Detrital zircon; Lu Hf isotopes; Ordovician; Provenance; Rheic Ocean; U Pb dating

Indexed keywords

CAMBRIAN; CONTINENTAL ARC; DETRITAL DEPOSIT; HAFNIUM; ORDOVICIAN; PLATE TECTONICS; PROVENANCE; SILICICLASTIC DEPOSIT; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC SETTING; TERRANE; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

GERMANY;

EID: 74449085680     PISSN: 1342937X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gr.2009.11.007     Document Type: Article

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