Detrital heavy minerals, white mica and zircon geochronology in the Ordovician South Mayo trough, western Ireland: Signatures of the Laurentian basement and the Grampian orogeny

Journal of the Geological Society

Volumn 167, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1147-1160

  Mange, Maria ^a   Idleman, Bruce ^b   Qing Zhu, Yin ^a   Hidaka, Hiroshi ^c   Dewey, John ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBOLITE FACIES; DETRITAL WHITE MICA; DETRITAL ZIRCON; FOREARC; HEAVY MINERALS; IRELAND; ISOTOPIC SYSTEMATICS; LAURENTIAN; METAMORPHIC AGE; NEOPROTEROZOIC; OPHIOLITE COMPLEX; ORDOVICIAN; POST-COLLISION; THERMAL ANNEALING EFFECTS; U-PB AGES; UNIMODAL; WHITE MICA;

GEOCHRONOLOGY; MICA; SILICATE MINERALS; ZIRCON;

MINERALS;

ARGON-ARGON DATING; DETRITAL DEPOSIT; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; GEOCHRONOLOGY; HEAVY MINERAL; LAURENTIA; METAMORPHISM; MICA; ORDOVICIAN; OROGENY; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

IRELAND;

MICAS;

EID: 78249281652     PISSN: 00167649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/0016-76492009-091     Document Type: Article

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