Detrital zircon record of thrust belt unroofing in Lower Cretaceous synorogenic conglomerates, central Utah

Geology

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 463-466

  Lawton, Timothy F ^a   Hunt, Gary J ^a   Gehrels, George E ^b  

^a NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHEAN; CAMBRIANS; CENOMANIAN; COMPOSITIONAL VARIATION; DETRITAL ZIRCON; EARLY CRETACEOUS; EARLY PALEOZOIC; FORELAND BASIN; JURASSIC; LOWER CRETACEOUS; LOWER PALEOZOIC; MESOZOIC; NEOPROTEROZOIC; PALEOPROTEROZOIC; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; THRUST BELTS; UPPER CRETACEOUS;

CRYSTALLINE ROCKS; DEPOSITS; GEOCHRONOLOGY; IGNEOUS ROCKS; LEAD; LEAD DEPOSITS; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; SILICATE MINERALS; STRATIGRAPHY; ZIRCON;

ZIRCON DEPOSITS;

AGE DETERMINATION; CONGLOMERATE; CRETACEOUS; EROSION; FOLD AND THRUST BELT; GEOCHRONOLOGY; OROGENY; SANDSTONE; UNROOFING; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

UNITED STATES; UTAH;

EID: 77953948519     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G30684.1     Document Type: Article

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