U-Pb ages of detrital zircons from the Basal allochthonous units of NW Iberia: Provenance and paleoposition on the northern margin of Gondwana during the Neoproterozoic and Paleozoic

Gondwana Research

Volumn 18, Issue 2-3, 2010, Pages 385-399

  Díez Fernández, Rubén ^a   Catalán, José R Martínez ^a   Gerdes, Axel ^b   Abati, Jacobo ^c   Arenas, Ricardo ^c   Fernández Suárez, Javier ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c Universidad Complutense de Madrid CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Detrital zircons; Geodynamics; LA ICP MS; NW Iberia; U Pb dating; Variscan allochthonous terranes

Indexed keywords

ALLOCHTHON; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; DETRITAL DEPOSIT; GONDWANA; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA METHOD; PALEOZOIC; PROTEROZOIC; PROVENANCE; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

IBERIAN PENINSULA;

EID: 77954286418     PISSN: 1342937X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gr.2009.12.006     Document Type: Article

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