U-Pb SHRIMP ages of detrital granulite-facies rutiles: Further constraints on provenance of Jurassic sandstones on the Norwegian margin

Geological Magazine

Volumn 148, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 473-480

  Meinhold, Guido ^a   Morton, Andrew C ^a,b   Fanning, C Mark ^c   Whitham, Andrew G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b Giddanmu   (United Kingdom)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

geothermometry; Norwegian margin; rutile; sediment provenance; U Pb geochronology

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL GEOCHEMISTRY; BINARY ALLOYS; ELECTRON PROBE MICROANALYSIS; GEOCHRONOLOGY; LEAD ALLOYS; PETROLEUM PROSPECTING; SANDSTONE; SHELLFISH; SILICATE MINERALS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; ZIRCON;

GEOTHERMOMETRY; NORWEGIAN MARGIN; RUTILE; SEDIMENT PROVENANCE; U-PB GEOCHRONOLOGY;

OXIDE MINERALS;

CLASTIC SEDIMENT; ELECTRON PROBE ANALYSIS; GRANULITE FACIES; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HYDROCARBON EXPLORATION; JURASSIC; METAMORPHISM; METAPELITE; METASEDIMENTARY ROCK; PROVENANCE; RUTILE; SANDSTONE; SHRIMP DATING; URANIUM-LEAD DATING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTH SEA; NORWEGIAN MARGIN [NORTH SEA];

EID: 79960356040     PISSN: 00167568     EISSN: 14695081     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0016756810000877     Document Type: Article

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