Enhancing tectonic and provenance information from detrital zircon studies: Assessing terrane-scale sampling and grain-scale characterization

Journal of the Geological Society

Volumn 168, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 309-318

  Hietpas, Jack ^a   Samson, Scott ^a   Moecher, David ^b   Chakraborty, Suvankar ^b  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUISITION RATES; APPALACHIAN OROGEN; CATHODOLUMINESCENCE IMAGES; DATA SETS; DETRITAL ZIRCON; POTENTIAL SOURCE REGIONS; PROVENANCE STUDIES; SCALE CHARACTERIZATION; SEDIMENTARY FORMATION; SILICICLASTIC SEDIMENTS; SINGLE SAMPLE; U-PB AGES; ZIRCON AGE;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; LEAD; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SILICATE MINERALS;

ZIRCON;

CATHODOLUMINESCENCE; DETRITAL DEPOSIT; PROVENANCE; SILICICLASTIC DEPOSIT; TECTONICS; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

APPALACHIANS; FRENCH BROAD RIVER; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79952257908     PISSN: 00167649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/0016-76492009-163     Document Type: Article

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