Detrital zircon age structure within ca. 3 Ga metasedimentary rocks, Yilgarn Craton: Elucidation of Hadean source terranes by principal component analysis

Precambrian Research

Volumn 214-215, Issue , 2012, Pages 28-43

  Thern, Eric R ^a   Nelson, David R ^b  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Detrital zircon; Geochronology; Hadean; Multivariate; Yilgarn

Indexed keywords

AGE DETERMINATION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; HADEAN; LEAD-LEAD DATING; METASEDIMENTARY ROCK; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; ZIRCON;

AUSTRALIA; WESTERN AUSTRALIA; YILGARN BLOCK;

EID: 84865393856     PISSN: 03019268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.precamres.2011.10.015     Document Type: Article

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