Precambrian sources of Early Paleozoic SE Gondwana sediments as deduced from combined Lu-Hf and U-Pb systematics of detrital zircons, Takaka and Buller terrane, South Island, New Zealand

Gondwana Research

Volumn 20, Issue 2-3, 2011, Pages 427-442

  Nebel Jacobsen, Yona ^a,b   Münker, Carsten ^a,c   Nebel, Oliver ^b   Mezger, Klaus ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Buller; Geochronology; Gondwana; New zealand; Takaka; Zircon

Indexed keywords

CAMBRIAN; CHEMOSTRATIGRAPHY; DETRITAL DEPOSIT; GONDWANA; HAFNIUM; LUTETIUM; ORDOVICIAN; PROTOLITH; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

NELSON; NEW ZEALAND; SOUTH ISLAND; TAKAKA VALLEY;

EID: 79960291278     PISSN: 1342937X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gr.2010.11.014     Document Type: Article

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