Discovery of early Mesoarchean crust in the eastern Gawler Craton, South Australia

Precambrian Research

Volumn 179, Issue 1-4, 2010, Pages 1-21

  Fraser, Geoffrey ^a   McAvaney, Stacey ^b   Neumann, Narelle ^a   Szpunar, Michael ^b   Reid, Anthony ^b  

^a GEOSCIENCE AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b Geological Survey Branch   (Australia)

Author keywords

Gawler Craton; Mesoarchean; Sm Nd; U Pb SHRIMP zircon geochronology

Indexed keywords

ARCHEAN; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GRANITE; HEAT FLOW; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; PROTEROZOIC; SAMARIUM-NEODYMIUM DATING; SHRIMP DATING; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

AUSTRALIA; GAWLER CRATON; NORTH AUSTRALIAN CRATON; PILBARA BLOCK; SOUTH AUSTRALIA; WESTERN AUSTRALIA; YILGARN BLOCK;

CALLUNA VULGARIS;

EID: 77950691018     PISSN: 03019268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.precamres.2010.02.008     Document Type: Article

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