Laurentian provenance of archean mantle fragments in the proterozoic baltic crust of the norwegian caledonides

Journal of Petrology

Volumn 53, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1357-1383

  Beyer, E E ^a,b   Brueckner, H K ^a,c,d   Griffin, W L ^a   O'reilly, S Y ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Northern Territory Geological Survey   (Australia)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^d Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Baltica Laurentia; Caledonian orogeny; Peridotite zircons; Western Gneiss Region

Indexed keywords

ARCHEAN; BALTICA; CALEDONIAN OROGENY; GNEISS; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LAURENTIA; PERIDOTITE; TRACE ELEMENT; ULTRAHIGH PRESSURE METAMORPHISM; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

NORWAY; WESTERN GNEISS REGION;

EID: 84863857957     PISSN: 00223530     EISSN: 14602415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/petrology/egs019     Document Type: Article

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