Detrital zircon Hf isotopic composition indicates long-distance transport of North Gondwana Cambrian-Ordovician sandstones

Geology

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 955-958

  Morag, Navot ^a   Avigad, Dov ^a   Gerdes, Axel ^b   Belousova, Elena ^c   Harlavan, Yehudit ^d  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMBRIANS; DETRITAL ZIRCON; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; ISOTOPIC DATA; ISOTOPIC SIGNALS; ISOTOPIC SIGNATURES; LONG-DISTANCE TRANSPORT; NEOPROTEROZOIC; NORTHEAST AFRICA; OROGENIC EVENTS; OROGENS; PALEOCURRENTS; SAMPLING SITE; SUPERCONTINENTS; U-PB AGES;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; BUILDINGS; ISOTOPES; LEAD DEPOSITS; QUARTZ; SANDSTONE; ZIRCON;

HAFNIUM;

CAMBRIAN; DETRITAL DEPOSIT; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GONDWANA; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; ORDOVICIAN; PROTEROZOIC; PROVENANCE; SANDSTONE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

ARABIAN SHIELD; ISRAEL; JORDAN; NUBIAN SHIELD;

EID: 80053951782     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G32184.1     Document Type: Article

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