U-Pb zircon geochronology of granites and charnockite from southern India: Implications for magmatic pulses associated with plate tectonic cycles within a Precambrian suture zone

Geological Journal

Volumn 47, Issue 2-3, 2012, Pages 237-252

  Sato, Kei ^a,b   Santosh, M ^c   Chetty, T R K ^d   Hirata, Takafumi ^e  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c KOCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^e KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

A type granite; Charnockite; Laser ablation ICP mass spectrometry (LA ICP MS); Rapakivi granite; Southern Granulite Terrane, India; Zircon geochronology

Indexed keywords

A-TYPE ROCK; AGE DETERMINATION; CHARNOCKITE; CONTINENTAL COLLISION; CRUSTAL EVOLUTION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GONDWANA; GRANITE; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA METHOD; MAGMATISM; PLATE TECTONICS; PRECAMBRIAN; SUBDUCTION ZONE; SUTURE ZONE; URANIUM-LEAD DATING;

INDIA;

EID: 84859406690     PISSN: 00721050     EISSN: 10991034     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gj.1300     Document Type: Article

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