Detrital zircon geochronology of the Roberts Mountains allochthon, Nevada

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 347, Issue , 2000, Pages 19-42

  Gehrels, George E ^a   Dickinson, William R ^a   Riley, Brook C D ^a,d   Finney, Stanley C ^b   Smith, Moira T ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Tech Exploration Ltd   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHES; BINARY ALLOYS; GEOCHRONOLOGY; LANDFORMS; LEAD ALLOYS; OCEAN CURRENTS; RIVERS; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SILICATE MINERALS; URANIUM ALLOYS; ZIRCON;

BASEMENT ROCKS; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; DEPOSITIONAL SETTING; DETRITAL ZIRCON; DETRITAL ZIRCON GRAINS; EXTENSIONAL FAULTS; LONGSHORE CURRENTS; TURBIDITY CURRENT;

SANDSTONE;

ALLOCHTHON; CAMBRIAN; CORDILLERA; DETRITAL DEPOSIT; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GEOSYNCLINE; OROGENIC BELT; PALEOZOIC; SANDSTONE; ZIRCON;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CANADIAN MARGIN; NEVADA; ROBERTS MOUNTAINS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84870929490     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2347-7.19     Document Type: Article

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