New data on the lithostratigraphy, detrital zircon and Nd isotope provenance, and paleogeographic setting of the El Antimonio Group, Sonora, Mexico

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 393, Issue , 2005, Pages 259-282

  González León, Carlos M ^a   Stanley, George D ^b   Gehrels, George E ^c   Centeno García, Elena ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^c University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

El antimonio group; Mexico; Sonora; Triassic lower jurassic; Upper permian

Indexed keywords

BINARY ALLOYS; GEOCHRONOLOGY; ISOTOPES; LEAD ALLOYS; LIME; NEODYMIUM; SAMARIUM ALLOYS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SILICATE MINERALS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; URANIUM ALLOYS; VOLCANIC ROCKS; VOLCANOES; ZIRCON;

EL ANTIMONIO GROUP; JURASSIC; ME-XICO; SONORA; UPPER PERMIAN;

NEODYMIUM ALLOYS;

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CONGLOMERATE; FOREARC BASIN; JURASSIC; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; NEODYMIUM; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PERMIAN; PETROGRAPHY; PROTEROZOIC; SAMARIUM-NEODYMIUM DATING; SHALE; TRIASSIC; TYPE SECTION; UNCONFORMITY; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; VOLCANICLASTIC DEPOSIT; ZIRCON;

ARIZONA; CALIFORNIA; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NEVADA; SONORA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84874993846     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2393-0.259     Document Type: Article

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