The Great Grenvillian Sedimentation Episode: Record of Supercontinent Rodinia's assembly

Tectonics of Sedimentary Basins: Recent Advances

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 583-601

  Rainbird, Robert ^a   Cawood, Peter ^b,c   Gehrels, George ^d  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^d University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Detrital zircon geochronology; Fluvial; Neoproterozoic; Paleogeography; Rodinia

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886194887     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444347166.ch29     Document Type: Chapter

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