Reduced, reused and recycled: Detrital zircons define a maximum age for the Eoarchean (ca. 3750-3780Ma) Nuvvuagittuq Supracrustal Belt, Québec (Canada)

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 362, Issue , 2013, Pages 283-293

  Cates, Nicole L ^a   Ziegler, Karen ^b,c   Schmitt, Axel K ^b   Mojzsis, Stephen J ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

Detrital; Eoarchean; Geochronology; Nuvvuagittuq; Quartzite; Zircon

Indexed keywords

BASALTIC CRUST; BULK SILICATE EARTH; DETRITAL; DETRITAL ZIRCON; EOARCHEAN; GRANITOID GNEISS; ION MICROPROBE; ND ISOTOPES; NUVVUAGITTUQ; POSITIVE CORRELATIONS; QUARTZITE; U-PB AGES;

GEOCHRONOLOGY; ISOTOPES; LEAD; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; ZIRCON;

NEODYMIUM;

ARCHEAN; CRUST; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GEODYNAMICS; NEODYMIUM ISOTOPE; QUARTZITE; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION; SUPRACRUSTAL ROCK; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

CANADA; NUVVUAGITTUQ GREENSTONE BELT; QUEBEC [CANADA];

EID: 84873091578     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2012.11.054     Document Type: Article

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