A distant magmatic source for Cretaceous karst bauxites of Southern Apennines (Italy), revealed through SHRIMP zircon age dating

Terra Nova

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 326-332

  Boni, Maria ^a   Reddy, Steven M ^b   Mondillo, Nicola ^a   Balassone, Giuseppina ^a   Taylor, Rich ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAUXITE; CARBONATE PLATFORM; CRETACEOUS; CRYSTALLIZATION; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; KARST; MAGMATISM; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; SHRIMP DATING; STRATIGRAPHY; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; VOLCANISM; ZIRCON;

APENNINES; ITALY;

EID: 84863777013     PISSN: 09544879     EISSN: 13653121     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3121.2012.01068.x     Document Type: Article

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