SHRIMP zircon U-Pb dating of sapphirine-bearing granulite and biotite-hornblende gneiss in the Schirmacher Hills, East Antarctica: Implications for Neoproterozoic ultrahigh-temperature metamorphism predating the assembly of Gondwana

Journal of Geology

Volumn 118, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 621-639

  Baba, Sotaro ^a   Hokada, Tomokazu ^b   Kaiden, Hiroshi ^b   Dunkley, Daniel J ^b   Owada, Masaaki ^c   Shiraishi, Kazuyuki ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF POLAR RESEARCH   (Japan)

^c YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOTITE; CONTINENTAL COLLISION; CRYSTALLIZATION; GNEISS; GONDWANA; GRANULITE; HORNBLENDE; PARTIAL MELTING; PROTEROZOIC; SAPPHIRINE; SHRIMP DATING; TECTONIC SETTING; ULTRAHIGH PRESSURE METAMORPHISM; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA; QUEEN MAUD LAND; SCHIRMACHER OASIS;

EID: 78649541376     PISSN: 00221376     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/656384     Document Type: Article

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