Two cycles of voluminous pyroclastic volcanism and sedimentation related to episodic granite emplacement during the late Archean: Eastern Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia

Precambrian Research

Volumn 183, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 251-274

  Squire, Richard J ^a   Allen, Charlotte M ^b   Cas, Ray A F ^a   Campbell, Ian H ^b   Blewett, Richard S ^c   Nemchin, Alexander A ^d  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c Predictive Mineral Discovery Cooperative Research Centre   (Australia)

^d CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Archean; Detrital zircons; Provenance; Tectonics; U Pb geochronology; Volcaniclastic sediments; Yilgarn Craton

Indexed keywords

ARCHEAN; DETRITAL DEPOSIT; EMPLACEMENT; EXHUMATION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GREENSTONE; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PROVENANCE; PYROCLASTIC DEPOSIT; SHRIMP DATING; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; VOLCANICLASTIC DEPOSIT; VOLCANISM; ZIRCON;

AUSTRALIA; WESTERN AUSTRALIA; YILGARN BLOCK;

EID: 78449285433     PISSN: 03019268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.precamres.2010.08.009     Document Type: Article

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