Devonian to Carboniferous collision in the Greenland Caledonides: U-Pb zircon and Sm-Nd ages of high-pressure and ultrahigh-pressure metamorphism

Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology

Volumn 148, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 216-235

  Gilotti, Jane A ^a   Nutman, Allen P ^b   Brueckner, Hannes K ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^d Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLISION ZONE; GEOCHRONOLOGY; LAURENTIA; OROGENY; PALEOZOIC; ULTRAHIGH PRESSURE METAMORPHISM;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC; CALEDONIDES; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GREENLAND; WORLD;

EID: 7744229944     PISSN: 00107999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00410-004-0600-4     Document Type: Article

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