U-Pb geochronology of two discrete Ordovician high-pressure metamorphic events in the Seve Nappe Complex, Scandinavian Caledonides

Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology

Volumn 163, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 769-788

  Root, David ^a,b   Corfu, Fernando ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Eclogite; ID TIMS; Scandinavian Caledonides; Seve Nappe Complex; U Pb; Zircon

Indexed keywords

AGE DETERMINATION; BALTICA; CALEDONIAN OROGENY; ECLOGITE; GEOCHRONOLOGY; HIGH PRESSURE; METAGABBRO; METAMORPHISM; ORDOVICIAN; SUBDUCTION; TITANITE; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

CALEDONIDES; JAMTLAND; NORRBOTTEN; SWEDEN;

EID: 84859731253     PISSN: 00107999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00410-011-0698-0     Document Type: Article

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