Evolution of early crust in chondritic or nonchondritic Earth inferred from U-Pb and Lu-Hf data for chemically abraded zircon from the Itsaq Gneiss Complex, West Greenland

Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 141-160

  Amelin, Yuri ^a   Kamo, Sandra L ^b   Lee, Der Chuen ^c  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR ABRASION; BULK SILICATE EARTH; EARLY SOLAR SYSTEMS; EARTH PARAMETERS; ENRICHED MANTLE; GNEISS COMPLEXES; GREENLAND; ISOTOPE DILUTIONS; MANTLE SOURCE; MC-ICP-MS; MULTI-COLLECTOR; PLANETARY DIFFERENTIATION; PROTOLITHS; THERMAL IONIZATION MASS SPECTROMETRY; TONALITIC MAGMAS; WEST GREENLAND;

ABRASION; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; GALLIUM; HAFNIUM; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA; ISOTOPES; MASS SPECTROMETRY; SILICATE MINERALS; SOLAR SYSTEM; ZIRCON;

MASS SPECTROMETERS;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHONDRITE; CRUSTAL EVOLUTION; GNEISS; HAFNIUM; IONIZATION; IRRADIATION; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; LUTETIUM; MANTLE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PROTOLITH; SILICATE; SOLAR SYSTEM; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND;

EID: 79952264570     PISSN: 00084077     EISSN: 14803313     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/E10-091     Document Type: Article

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