U-Pb zircon provenance of Moldanubian metasediments in the Bohemian Massif

Journal of the Geological Society

Volumn 171, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 83-95

  Košler, Jan ^a,b   Konopásek, Jiří ^a,b   Sláma, Jiří ^a,c   Vrána, Stanislav ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b CZECH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (Czech Republic)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOHEMIAN MASSIFS; DETRITAL ZIRCON AGE SPECTRUM; EARLY ORDOVICIAN; LASER ABLATION INDUCTIVELY-COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRIES; METAMORPHIC GRADE; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; TECTONIC MODELS; VARISCAN OROGENIES;

INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY; LEAD; ZIRCON;

GEOCHRONOLOGY;

DEVONIAN; GEOCHRONOLOGY; METASEDIMENT; ORDOVICIAN; PROVENANCE; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

BOHEMIAN MASSIF;

EID: 84892645174     PISSN: 00167649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/jgs2013-059     Document Type: Article

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