Introduction to detrital zircon studies of Paleozoic and Triassic strata in western Nevada and northern California

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 347, Issue , 2000, Pages 1-17

  Gehrels, George E ^a  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINARY ALLOYS; LEAD ALLOYS; SILICATE MINERALS; URANIUM ALLOYS;

ANALYTICAL METHOD; BACKGROUND INFORMATION; CALIFORNIA; DETRITAL ZIRCON; DETRITAL ZIRCON GRAINS; PALEOZOIC; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TRIASSIC;

ZIRCON;

DETRITAL DEPOSIT; GEOCHRONOLOGY; PALEOZOIC; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TRIASSIC; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

CALIFORNIA; NEVADA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84870911220     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2347-7.1     Document Type: Article

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