Short-lived continental magmatic arc at Connemara, western Irish Caledonides: Implications for the age of the Grampian orogeny

Geology

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 27-30

  Friedrich, Anke M ^a   Bowring, Samuel A ^a   Martin, Mark W ^a   Hodges, Kip V ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINARY ALLOYS; DEFORMATION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; LEAD ALLOYS; SILICATE MINERALS; ZIRCON;

AGE CONSTRAINTS; AMPHIBOLITE-FACIES METAMORPHISM; ARC-CONTINENT COLLISION; CRUSTAL DEFORMATIONS; LOWER PALEOZOIC; NEOPROTEROZOIC; PLATE BOUNDARIES; U-PB ZIRCON AGES;

URANIUM ALLOYS;

ARC-CONTINENT COLLISION; MAGMATISM; ORDOVICIAN; OROGENY;

CONNEMARA; COUNTY GALWAY; IRELAND;

EID: 84879885337     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1999)027<0027:SLCMAA>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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