Sulfur- and oxygen-isotope constraints on the sedimentary history of apparent conglomerates from the Nuvvuagittuq Greenstone Belt (Nunavik, Québec)

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 355-356, Issue , 2012, Pages 271-282

  Kitayama, Y ^a   Thomassot, E ^b   O'Neil, J ^c   Wing, B A ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ BLAISE PASCAL   (France)

Author keywords

Ion probe analyses; Nuvvuagittuq Greenstone Belt; Quartzbiotite schist; Sulfur and oxygen isotopes

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL PRECIPITATION; CHEMICAL SEDIMENT; DETRITAL ZIRCON; GENETIC INTERPRETATIONS; GREENSTONE BELTS; ION PROBE; ISOTOPIC SIGNATURES; LOW TEMPERATURES; MASS-INDEPENDENT FRACTIONATION; OXYGEN ISOTOPE COMPOSITION; OXYGEN ISOTOPES; PROTOLITHS; QUARTZBIOTITE SCHIST; SULFUR ISOTOPE; SURFICIAL ENVIRONMENT;

IGNEOUS ROCKS; ISOTOPES; MICA; OXYGEN; SEAWATER; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SULFUR;

QUARTZ;

BIOTITE; CLAST; CONGLOMERATE; DETRITAL DEPOSIT; GREENSTONE BELT; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION; MAFIC ROCK; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); PROTOLITH; QUARTZ; SCHIST; SULFIDE; SULFUR ISOTOPE; SUPRACRUSTAL ROCK; ZIRCON;

CANADA; NUNAVIK; NUVVUAGITTUQ GREENSTONE BELT; QUEBEC [CANADA];

EID: 84867432757     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2012.08.026     Document Type: Article

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