Depositional age, provenance and metamorphic age of metasedimentary rocks from southern Madagascar

Gondwana Research

Volumn 21, Issue 2-3, 2012, Pages 353-361

  Collins, Alan S ^a,b   Kinny, Peter D ^c   Razakamanana, Théodore ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d Universite de Toliara   (Madagascar)

Author keywords

Depositional ages; East African Orogeny; Geochronology; Gondwana; Madagascar; Metamorphism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855527500     PISSN: 1342937X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gr.2010.12.006     Document Type: Article

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