Chapter 37: U-Pb SIMS zircon geochronology of Triassic and Jurassic sandstones on northwestern Axel Heiberg Island, northern Sverdrup Basin, Arctic Canada

Geological Society Memoir

Volumn 35, Issue , 2011, Pages 559-566

  Omma, J E ^a   Pease, V ^b   Scott, R A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHEAN; CALEDONIAN OROGENY; GEOCHRONOLOGY; JURASSIC; MESOZOIC; PROTEROZOIC; SANDSTONE; SILURIAN; STRATIGRAPHY; TRIASSIC; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

ARCTIC OCEAN; AXEL HEIBERG ISLAND; BARENTS SEA; CANADA; KRASNOYARSK [RUSSIAN FEDERATION]; NUNAVUT; QUEEN ELIZABETH ISLANDS; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; TAYMYR PENINSULA;

EID: 80051949546     PISSN: 04354052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/M35.37     Document Type: Article

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