The age distribution of detrital zircons in quartzites from the toodyay-lake grace domain, western australia: Implications for the early evolution of the yilgarn craton

American Journal of Science

Volumn 310, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1115-1135

  Pidgeon, Robert T ^a   Wingate, Michael T D ^a,b   Bodorkos, Simon ^b,d   Nelson, David R ^c  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d GEOSCIENCE AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Detrital zircon; Geochronology; Provenance studies; Yilgarn Craton

Indexed keywords

AGE DETERMINATION; ARCHEAN; CRATON; EMPLACEMENT; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GRANITE; METASEDIMENT; PEGMATITE; PROVENANCE; QUARTZITE; SHRIMP DATING; SOURCE ROCK; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

AUSTRALIA; WESTERN AUSTRALIA; YILGARN BLOCK;

EID: 79952800814     PISSN: 00029599     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2475/09.2010.13     Document Type: Article

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