Detrital zircon geochronology of the Shoo Fly Complex, northern Sierra terrane, northeastern California

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 347, Issue , 2000, Pages 43-55

  Harding, James P ^a   Gehrels, George E ^a   Harwood, David S ^b   Girty, Gary H ^c  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINARY ALLOYS; GEOCHRONOLOGY; LAKES; LEAD ALLOYS; SILICATE MINERALS; URANIUM ALLOYS; VOLCANIC ROCKS; VOLCANOES; ZIRCON;

BASEMENT ROCKS; CANADIAN SHIELDS; DETRITAL ZIRCON; DETRITAL ZIRCON GRAINS; EARLY PALEOZOIC; NEOPROTEROZOIC; PALEOPROTEROZOIC; VOLCANIC ARC;

GALLIUM;

ALLOCHTHON; DETRITAL DEPOSIT; GEOCHRONOLOGY; LACUSTRINE ENVIRONMENT; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; VOLCANIC ARC; ZIRCON;

CANADIAN SHIELD; CULBERSON COUNTY; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84870920466     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2347-7.43     Document Type: Article

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