Probing for Proterozoic and Archean crust in the Northern U.S. Cordillera with inherited zircon from the Idaho batholith

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 125, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 73-88

  Gaschnig, Richard M ^a,d   Vervoort, Jeffrey D ^a   Lewis, Reed S ^b   Tikoff, Basil ^c  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^d Bldg 142   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARCHEAN; ARCHEAN LITHOSPHERE; ATLANTA; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; DETRITAL ZIRCON; EARLY CRETACEOUS; GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION; IDAHO BATHOLITH; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; JURASSIC; MAGMATIC ROCK; MAGMATISMS; METASEDIMENTARY ROCKS; NEOPROTEROZOIC; ORTHOGNEISSES; PLUTONS; PRECAMBRIAN; PRECAMBRIAN BASEMENT; PROTEROZOIC; SEDIMENTARY COVERS; SUPERCONTINENTS; U-PB AGES; WINDERMERE; WYOMING;

BUILDINGS; GALLIUM; HAFNIUM; IGNEOUS ROCKS; LEAD; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONICS; ZIRCON;

METAMORPHIC ROCKS;

ARCHEAN; BATHOLITH; CONTINENTAL CRUST; GEOCHRONOLOGY; MAGMATISM; PROTEROZOIC; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

IDAHO; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84872300936     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 19432674     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B30583.1     Document Type: Article

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