Regional provenance study of Eocene clastic sedimentary rocks within the South America-Caribbean plate boundary zone using detrital zircon geochronology

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 291, Issue 1-4, 2010, Pages 159-171

  Xie, Xiangyang ^a,b   Mann, Paul ^a   Escalona, Alejandro ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STAVANGER   (Norway)

Author keywords

Eocene; Paleogeography; Provenance; South America; Tectonics; U Pb detrital zircon dating

Indexed keywords

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; CENOZOIC; CLASTIC SEDIMENTS; COMPLEX LINKAGES; DETRITAL ZIRCON; LEADING EDGE; LINE SOURCES; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PALEOZOIC; PLATE BOUNDARIES; PLATE MOTIONS; POINT SOURCES; PRECAMBRIAN; PROVENANCE STUDIES; SINGLE GRAINS; SOURCE MODELS; SOUTH AMERICA; THRUST FAULTS; VENEZUELA;

GEOCHRONOLOGY; PRISMS; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; SILICATE MINERALS; TECTONICS; ZIRCON;

SEDIMENTOLOGY;

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; CARIBBEAN PLATE; CLASTIC SEDIMENT; EOCENE; GEOCHRONOLOGY; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PLATE BOUNDARY; PLATE MOTION; PROVENANCE; SEDIMENTATION; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; TECTONICS; THRUST FAULT; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

GUYANA SHIELD;

EID: 75949104155     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2010.01.009     Document Type: Article

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