Late cambrian-ordovician northeastern gondwanan terranes in the basement of the Apuseni Mountains, Romania

Journal of the Geological Society

Volumn 167, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1131-1145

  Balintoni, I ^a   Balica, C ^a   Ducea, M N ^b   Zaharia, L ^a   Chen, Fukun ^c   Cliveti, M ^a   Hann, H P ^d   Li, Li Qiu ^c   Ghergari, L ^a  

^a BABE BOLYAI UNIVERSITY   (Romania)

^b The University of Arizona   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMBRIANS; CARPATHIANS; CRYSTALLIZATION AGE; DETRITAL ZIRCON; LEAD LOSS; ORDOVICIAN; ROMANIA; U-PB ZIRCON; VARISCAN; ZIRCON AGE;

BUILDINGS; LANDFORMS; LEAD; SILICATE MINERALS;

ZIRCON;

CAMBRIAN; GONDWANA; HERCYNIAN OROGENY; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; METAIGNEOUS ROCK; ORDOVICIAN; TERRANE; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

APUSENI MOUNTAINS; ROMANIA;

EID: 78249272680     PISSN: 00167649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/0016-76492009-156     Document Type: Article

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