Provenance of Neoproterozoic to upper Cretaceous sedimentary rocks, eastern Greenland: Implications for recognizing the sources of sediments in the Norwegian Sea

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 238, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 254-267

  Slama, Jiri ^a,c   Walderhaug, Olav ^b   Fonneland, Hege ^b   Kosler, Jan ^a   Pedersen, Rolf B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b STATOIL   (Norway)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Eastern Greenland; Jan Mayen Island; North Atlantic; Sedimentary provenance; U Pb and Lu Hf; Zircon

Indexed keywords

GREENLAND; JAN MAYEN ISLAND; NORTH ATLANTIC; SEDIMENTARY PROVENANCE; U-PB AND LU-HF;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; HAFNIUM; IGNEOUS ROCKS; ISOTOPES; LEAD; ROCKS; SANDSTONE; SEDIMENTOLOGY; ZIRCON;

GEOCHRONOLOGY;

AGE DETERMINATION; CRETACEOUS; DEVONIAN; HAFNIUM; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LUTETIUM; MARINE SEDIMENT; OROGENIC BELT; OROGENY; PROTEROZOIC; PROVENANCE; SANDSTONE; SEDIMENTARY ROCK; SEDIMENTATION; TURBIDITE; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

ARCTIC; EAST GREENLAND; GREENLAND; JAN MAYEN; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

RHYACIA; SIDERIA;

EID: 79959576380     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2011.04.018     Document Type: Article

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