Provenance and exhumation of an exotic eclogite-bearing nappe in the Caledonides: A U-Pb and Rb-Sr study of the Jæren nappe, SW Norway

Journal of the Geological Society

Volumn 168, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 423-439

  Smit, M A ^a   Brocker M ^a   Kooijman, E ^a   Scherer, E E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBOLITE FACIES; DATA RECORDS; DETRITAL ZIRCON; ECLOGITES; LASER-ABLATION INDUCTIVELY-COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY; LAURENTIAN; PHENGITE; RECRYSTALLIZATIONS; TIME CONSTRAINTS; U-PB AGES; WEIGHTED MEAN;

ABLATION; HAFNIUM; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY; MICA; RECRYSTALLIZATION (METALLURGY); SILICATE MINERALS; ZIRCON;

RUBIDIUM;

AGE DETERMINATION; AMPHIBOLITE FACIES; ECLOGITE; EMPLACEMENT; EXHUMATION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; NAPPE; PROVENANCE; RECRYSTALLIZATION; RUBIDIUM-STRONTIUM DATING; URANIUM-LEAD DATING;

CALEDONIDES; NORWAY;

EID: 79952262526     PISSN: 00167649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/0016-76492010-096     Document Type: Article

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