Provenance of passive-margin sand (Southern Africa)

Journal of Geology

Volumn 122, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 17-42

  Garzanti, Eduardo ^a   Vermeesch, Pieter ^b   Padoan, Marta ^a   Resentini, Alberto ^a   Vezzoli, Giovanni ^a   Andò, Sergio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHEAN; CLINOPYROXENE; FELDSPAR; FLOOD BASALT; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; GEOCHEMISTRY; GEOCHRONOLOGY; MINERALOGY; PASSIVE MARGIN; PETROGRAPHY; PLAGIOCLASE; PROVENANCE; QUARTZ; SAND; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; VOLCANIC ROCK; ZIRCON;

SOUTHERN AFRICA;

EID: 84892448418     PISSN: 00221376     EISSN: 15375269     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/674803     Document Type: Article

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