Towards identifying the origin of metamorphic components in Austrian loess: Insights from detrital rutile chemistry, thermometry and U-Pb geochronology

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 75, Issue , 2013, Pages 132-142

  Újvári, Gábor ^a   Klötzli, Urs ^b   Kiraly, Franz ^b   Ntaflos, Theodoros ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Detrital rutile; Loess provenance; Quaternary; Rutile U Pb ages; Zr in rutile thermometry

Indexed keywords

DETRITAL RUTILE; LOESS PROVENANCES; QUATERNARY; U-PB AGES; ZR-IN-RUTILE THERMOMETRY;

GEOCHEMISTRY; LEAD; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; ROCKS; SEDIMENTS; SILICATE MINERALS; THERMOMETERS; URANIUM; ZIRCONIUM;

OXIDE MINERALS;

AMPHIBOLITE; DETRITAL DEPOSIT; FLYSCH; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GEOTHERMOMETRY; LOESS; METAPELITE; QUATERNARY; RUTILE; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

ALPS; AUSTRIA; BOHEMIAN MASSIF; EASTERN ALPS;

EID: 84880151261     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.06.002     Document Type: Article

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