Composition and age of the East Antarctic shield in eastern Wilkes Land determined by proxy from oligocene-pleistocene glaciomarine sediment and beacon supergroup sandstones, Antarctica

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 122, Issue 7-8, 2010, Pages 1135-1159

  Goodge, John W ^a   Fanning, C Mark ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DULUTH   (United States)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTICA; ARCHEAN; BASEMENT ROCKS; DETRITAL ZIRCON; GLACIOMARINE SEDIMENT; GRANITOIDS; ICE SHEET; MARINE SEDIMENTS; METAMORPHIC BASEMENTS; MIOCENE; NEOPROTEROZOIC; OLIGOCENE; PALEOPROTEROZOIC; PARTIAL MELTING; PERMIAN; PLEISTOCENE; PRECAMBRIAN; ROCK CLASTS; RODINIA; SOURCE AREA; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TRIASSIC; U-PB ZIRCON AGES; ZIRCON AGE;

BUILDINGS; DEPOSITS; GEOCHRONOLOGY; IGNEOUS ROCKS; LEAD; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SILICATE MINERALS; SUBMARINE GEOLOGY; ZIRCON; ZIRCON DEPOSITS;

METAMORPHIC ROCKS;

BASEMENT ROCK; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; DETRITUS; GEOCHEMISTRY; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GLACIOMARINE DEPOSIT; MIOCENE; OLIGOCENE; PERMIAN; PETROGRAPHY; PLEISTOCENE; PROVENANCE; SANDSTONE; SHIELD; SOURCE ROCK; TERRIGENOUS DEPOSIT; TRIASSIC; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA; WILKES LAND;

EID: 77954008602     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 00167606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B30079.1     Document Type: Article

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