Autochthonous inheritance of zircon through Cretaceous partial melting of Carboniferous plutons: The Arthur River Complex, Fiordland, New Zealand

Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology

Volumn 161, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 401-421

  Tulloch, Andrew J ^a   Ireland, Trevor R ^b,f   Kimbrough, David L ^c   Griffin, William L ^d   Ramezani, Jahandar ^e  

^a GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^f AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Fiordland; Gabbro diorite; Inheritance; Partial melting; Resetting; U Pb geochronology

Indexed keywords

AUTOCHTHON; CARBONIFEROUS; CRETACEOUS; CRYSTALLIZATION; DIORITE; EMPLACEMENT; FELSIC ROCK; GABBRO; GEOCHRONOLOGY; ORTHOGNEISS; PALEOZOIC; PARTIAL MELTING; PLUTON; PROTOLITH; RESETTING; SHRIMP DATING; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

FIORDLAND; NEW ZEALAND; SOUTH ISLAND; SOUTHLAND;

EID: 79551688847     PISSN: 00107999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00410-010-0539-6     Document Type: Article

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