Baltican crustal provenance for cambrian-ordovician sandstones of the alexander terrane, north american cordillera: Evidence from detrital zircon U-pb geochronology and Hf isotope geochemistry

Journal of the Geological Society

Volumn 170, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 7-18

  Beranek, Luke P ^a   van Staal, Cees R ^a   McClelland, William C ^b   Israel, Steve ^c   Mihalynuk, Mitch G ^d  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c Yukon Geological Survey   (Canada)

^d GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACK-ARC BASIN; CAMBRIANS; CRUSTAL SOURCES; DETRITAL ZIRCON; FENNOSCANDIAN SHIELDS; HF ISOTOPE; HIGH ARCTIC; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MAGMATIC ROCK; NEOPROTEROZOIC; NORTH AMERICAN; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; ORDOVICIAN; OROGENIC BELTS; PALAEOZOIC; SIBERIA; U-PB GEOCHRONOLOGY; VOLCANICLASTICS;

EXPLORATORY GEOCHEMISTRY; GEOMAGNETISM; HAFNIUM; ISOTOPES; LEAD; SANDSTONE; SILICATE MINERALS;

GEOCHRONOLOGY;

BACKARC BASIN; CAMBRIAN; DETRITAL DEPOSIT; DISPLACEMENT; GEOCHEMISTRY; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GONDWANA; HAFNIUM; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LAURENTIA; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; ORDOVICIAN; OROGENIC BELT; PASSIVE MARGIN; PROVENANCE; SANDSTONE; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

ALEXANDER TERRANE; PACIFIC OCEAN; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SIBERIAN PLATFORM;

EID: 84871866318     PISSN: 00167649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/jgs2012-028     Document Type: Article

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