A direct comparison of the ages of detrital monazite versus detrital zircon in Appalachian foreland basin sandstones: Searching for the record of Phanerozoic orogenic events

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 310, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 488-497

  Hietpas, Jack ^a   Samson, Scott ^a   Moecher, David ^b  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Appalachian foreland basin; Detrital monazite; Detrital zircon; Provenance; SIMS

Indexed keywords

APPALACHIAN OROGEN; COMPLEX PHASIS; CRYSTALLIZATION AGE; DETRITAL MONAZITE; DETRITAL ZIRCON; FORELAND BASIN; IN-SITU MEASUREMENT; NEOPROTEROZOIC; OROGENIC EVENTS; PALEOZOIC; PETROGENESIS; PROVENANCE; REGIONAL TECTONICS; SEDIMENT DEPOSITION; SEDIMENT PROVENANCE; SEDIMENT SOURCES;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; GEOCHRONOLOGY; PHOSPHATE MINERALS; SANDSTONE; SEDIMENTOLOGY; ZIRCON;

MONAZITE;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CRYSTALLIZATION; DETRITAL DEPOSIT; FORELAND BASIN; GEOCHRONOLOGY; LEAD ISOTOPE; MONAZITE; OROGENIC BELT; PHANEROZOIC; PROVENANCE; SANDSTONE; TECTONIC SETTING; THORIUM ISOTOPE; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

APPALACHIAN BASIN;

EID: 80053352885     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2011.08.033     Document Type: Article

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