U-Pb baddeleyite ages and geochemistry of dolerite dykes in the Bas Drâa Inlier of the Anti-Atlas of Morocco: Newly identified 1380Ma event in the West African Craton

Lithos

Volumn 174, Issue , 2013, Pages 85-98

  El Bahat, Abdelhakim ^a   Ikenne, Moha ^a   Söderlund, Ulf ^b,c   Cousens, Brian ^d   Youbi, Nasrrddine ^e,f,g   Ernst, Richard ^d,h   Soulaimani, Abderrahmane ^e   El Janati, M'hamed ^e   Hafid, Ahmid ⁱ  

^a FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES   (Morocco)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c SWEDISH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Sweden)

^d CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES SEMLALIA   (Morocco)

^f CADI AYYAD UNIVERSITY   (Morocco)

^g UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^h Ernst Geosciences   (Canada)

ⁱ FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES ET TECHNIQUES GUÉLIZ   (Morocco)

Author keywords

Anti Atlas (Morocco); Columbia (Nuna); Mafic dykes; Mesoproterozoic; U Pb geochronology; West African Craton

Indexed keywords

ALKALI BASALT; BADDELEYITE; CRATON; DIABASE; DIKE; EMPLACEMENT; FRAGMENTATION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GRANITE; IGNEOUS GEOCHEMISTRY; INLIER; LARGE IGNEOUS PROVINCE; LAURENTIA; MAFIC ROCK; MAGMATISM; PROTEROZOIC; RIFTING; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; SEDIMENTATION; UPLIFT; URANIUM-LEAD DATING;

ANABAR SHIELD; ANTI ATLAS; ARCTIC; ATLAS MOUNTAINS; GREENLAND; MAURITANIA; MOROCCO; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SAKHA; SIBERIAN PLATFORM; WEST AFRICAN CRATON;

EID: 84878940063     PISSN: 00244937     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lithos.2012.07.022     Document Type: Article

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