Detrital zircon U-Pb-Hf systematics of Israeli coastal sands: New perspectives on the provenance of Nile sediments

Journal of the Geological Society

Volumn 171, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 107-116

  Be'Eri Shlevin, Y ^a   Avigad, D ^a   Gerdes, A ^b,c   Zlatkin, O ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEOLIAN TRANSPORT; CAMBRO-ORDOVICIAN; DETRITAL ZIRCON; ISOTOPIC CHARACTERISTICS; LASER ABLATION INDUCTIVELY-COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRIES; RECYCLING PRODUCTS; SAND RESERVOIRS; SMALL POPULATION;

GEOCHRONOLOGY; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY; LEAD; RECYCLING; SAND; SEDIMENTS;

HAFNIUM;

COASTAL SEDIMENT; DETRITAL DEPOSIT; DRAINAGE BASIN; HAFNIUM; LEAD; PROVENANCE; SANDSTONE; TERRANE; URANIUM; ZIRCON;

ISRAEL;

EID: 84892638834     PISSN: 00167649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/jgs2012-151     Document Type: Article

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