Tectonic escape of a crustal fragment during the closure of the Rheic Ocean: U-Pb detrital zircon data from the late Palaeozoic Pulo do Lobo and South Portuguese zones, Southern Iberia

Journal of the Geological Society

Volumn 168, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 383-392

  Braid, James A ^a   Brendan Murphy, J ^b   Quesada, Cecilio ^c   Mortensen, Jim ^d  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b ST FRANCIS XAVIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c INSTITUTO GEOLÓGICO Y MINERO DE ESPAÑA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCRETIONARY COMPLEX; DETRITAL ZIRCON; DEVONIANS; INDENTERS; LASER ABLATION INDUCTIVELY COUPLED MASS SPECTROMETRIES; LAURENTIAN; MAJOR EVENTS; PALAEOZOIC; SOUTH PORTUGUESE ZONES; TECTONIC TRANSPORT;

ABLATION; DEPOSITS; ELECTROMAGNETIC INDUCTION; LANDFORMS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METALS; SILICATE MINERALS;

TECTONICS;

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; CONTINENTAL COLLISION; GONDWANA; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOZOIC; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

IBERIAN PENINSULA;

EID: 79952260386     PISSN: 00167649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/0016-76492010-104     Document Type: Article

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