Detrital zircon U-Pb ages of Silurian-Devonian sediments from NW Svalbard: A fragment of Avalonia and Laurentia?

Journal of the Geological Society

Volumn 167, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1019-1032

  Pettersson, Carl H ^a   Pease, Victoria ^a   Frei, Dirk ^b  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASTIC ROCK; DETRITAL ZIRCON; DEVONIANS; GREENLAND; LASER-ABLATION INDUCTIVELY-COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY; LAURENTIAN; LONG-DISTANCE TRANSPORT; SILURIAN-DEVONIAN; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; SVALBARD;

ABLATION; ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; GEOCHRONOLOGY; IGNEOUS ROCKS; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY; LEAD; METALS; SILICATE MINERALS;

ZIRCON;

AGE DETERMINATION; AVALONIA; CLASTIC ROCK; DEVONIAN; GEOCHRONOLOGY; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA METHOD; LAURENTIA; SILURIAN; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

ARCTIC; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

EID: 77957139524     PISSN: 00167649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/0016-76492010-062     Document Type: Article

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