Imbricated ocean-plate stratigraphy and U-Pb zircon ages from tuff beds in cherts in the Ballantrae complex, SW Scotland

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 122, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 454-464

  Sawaki, Yusuke ^a   Shibuya, Takazo ^a   Kawai, Takahiro ^a   Komiya, Tsuyoshi ^a   Omori, Soichi ^a   Iizuka, Tsuyoshi ^b   Hirata, Takafumi ^a   Windley, Brian F ^c   Maruyama, Shigenori ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCRETIONARY WEDGE; CLASTICS; DUPLEX STRUCTURES; LEADING EDGE; SCOTLAND; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; U-PB ZIRCON AGES; VOLCANIC ARC; ZIRCON AGE;

OCEANOGRAPHY; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); SILICATE MINERALS; STRATIGRAPHY; VOLCANIC ROCKS;

ZIRCON;

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; CHERT; ISLAND ARC; OPHIOLITE; STRATIGRAPHY; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; THRUST; TUFF; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; VOLCANIC ROCK;

SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 77950976148     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 00167606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B26329.1     Document Type: Article

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