Detrital zircon geochronology of the Antler overlap and foreland basin assemblages, Nevada

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 347, Issue , 2000, Pages 57-63

  Gehrels, George E ^a   Dickinson, William R ^a  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINARY ALLOYS; GEOCHRONOLOGY; LANDFORMS; LEAD ALLOYS; STRATIGRAPHY; URANIUM ALLOYS; ZIRCON;

DETRITAL ZIRCON; DETRITAL ZIRCON GRAINS; FORELAND BASIN; MAIN GROUP; MISSISSIPPIANS; PALEOZOIC; PENNSYLVANIANS; UPPER PALEOZOIC;

SILICATE MINERALS;

DETRITAL DEPOSIT; FORELAND BASIN; GEOCHRONOLOGY; OROGENIC BELT; PALEOZOIC; PENNSYLVANIAN; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

NEVADA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84870862842     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2347-7.57     Document Type: Article

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