African/Amazonian Proterozoic correlations of Iberia: A detrital zircon U-Pb study of early Cambrian conglomerates from the Sierra de la Demanda (northern Spain)

Tectonics

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Balos, B ^a   Gil Ibarguchi, J I ^a   Snchez Lorda, M E ^a   Paquette, J L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITÉ BLAISE PASCAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEAD; OXIDE MINERALS; ZIRCON;

BACK-ARC BASIN; BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATA; CAMBRIANS; DETRITAL ZIRCON; EARLY PALEOZOIC; EDIACARAN; MAGMATIC ARCS; MAGMATISMS; NEOARCHEAN; NEOPROTEROZOIC; PALEOPROTEROZOIC; PALEOZOIC; PROTEROZOIC; PROVENANCE STUDIES; RODINIA; SOURCE AREA; ZIRCON AGE;

GEOCHRONOLOGY;

BACKARC BASIN; CAMBRIAN; CONGLOMERATE; DETRITAL DEPOSIT; HERCYNIAN OROGENY; MAGMATISM; PROTEROZOIC; QUARTZITE; SANDSTONE; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION; TECTONIC SETTING; TRANSGRESSION; URANIUM-LEAD DATING;

IBERIAN PENINSULA; SIERRA DE LA DEMANDA; SPAIN;

EID: 84861123584     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011TC003041     Document Type: Article

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