LA ICP MS U-Pb ages of detrital zircons from Russia largest rivers: Implications for major granitoid events in Eurasia and global episodes of supercontinent formation

Journal of Geodynamics

Volumn 50, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 134-153

  Safonova, Inna ^a   Maruyama, Shige ^b   Hirata, Takafumi ^c   Kon, Yoshiaki ^d   Rino, Shuji ^b  

^a SOBOLEV INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY   (Russian Federation)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

Continental growth; Detrital zircon; Granitoid magmatism; Peaks of orogeny; Supercontinents; U Pb age

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; GONDWANA; GRANITOID; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA METHOD; MAGMATISM; OROGENY; PROTEROZOIC; RECONSTRUCTION; RODINIA; SUPERCONTINENT; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 77954659563     PISSN: 02643707     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jog.2010.02.008     Document Type: Article

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