Paleogeographic implications of non-North American sediment in the Mesoproterozoic upper Belt Supergroup and Lemhi Group, Idaho and Montana, USA

Geology

Volumn 38, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 927-930

  Stewart, Eric D ^a   Link, Paul K ^a   Fanning, C Mark ^b   Frost, Carol D ^c   McCurry, Michael ^a  

^a IDAHO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DETRITAL ZIRCON; EAST ANTARCTICA; HF ISOTOPE; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; ISOTOPIC CHARACTERISTICS; LAURENTIAN; MINOR COMPONENTS; MONTANA , USA; ND ISOTOPES; NORTH AMERICAN; OKHOTSK; PALEOGEOGRAPHIC RECONSTRUCTION; PROVENANCE STUDIES; SEDIMENT SOURCES; SIBERIA; UNIMODAL;

ISOTOPES; LEAD; MINERALOGY; NEODYMIUM; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SILICATE MINERALS; ZIRCON;

HAFNIUM;

HAFNIUM; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LAURENTIA; LUTETIUM; NEODYMIUM ISOTOPE; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PROTEROZOIC; PROVENANCE; URANIUM-LEAD DATING;

IDAHO; MONTANA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77958086764     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G31194.1     Document Type: Article

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