The missing Rheic Ocean magmatic arcs: Provenance analysis of Late Paleozoic sedimentary clastic rocks of SW Iberia

Gondwana Research

Volumn 22, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 882-891

  Pereira, M F ^a   Chichorro, M ^b   Johnston, S T ^c   Gutierrez Alonso G ^d   Silva, J B ^e   Linnemann, U ^f   Hofmann, M ^f   Drost, K ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ÉVORA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSIDADE NOVA DE LISBOA   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^f SENCKENBERG DEUTSCHES ENTOMOLOGISCHES INSTITUT   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Detrital zircons; Early Carboniferous; Mid and Late Devonian; U Pb geochronology; Variscan belt

Indexed keywords

CLASTIC ROCK; MAGMA; MAGMATISM; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; PALEOZOIC; PANGAEA; PROVENANCE; TURBIDITE;

IBERIAN PENINSULA;

EID: 84866017749     PISSN: 1342937X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gr.2012.03.010     Document Type: Article

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