The palaeogeographic position of Central Iberia in Gondwana during the Ordovician: Evidence from zircon chronology and Nd isotopes

Terra Nova

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 341-346

  Bea, Fernando ^a   Montero, Pilar ^a   Talavera, Cristina ^a   Abu Anbar, Mohamed ^b   Scarrow, Jane H ^a   Molina, José F ^a   Moreno, Juan A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b Tanta University   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL EVOLUTION; FAUNA; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GONDWANA; INLIER; NEODYMIUM ISOTOPE; ORDOVICIAN; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PALEONTOLOGY; PRECAMBRIAN; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TERRANE; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

CENTRAL IBERIAN ZONE;

EID: 77956472032     PISSN: 09544879     EISSN: 13653121     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3121.2010.00957.x     Document Type: Article

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