The Paleoproterozoic Kaminak dykes, Hearne craton, western Churchill Province, Nunavut, Canada: Preliminary constraints on their age and petrogenesis

Precambrian Research

Volumn 232, Issue , 2013, Pages 119-139

  Sandeman, Hamish A ^a   Heaman, Larry M ^b   LeCheminant, Anthony N ^c  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c NONE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Hearne craton; Kaminak dykes; Lithogeochemistry; Nd isotopes; Petrogenesis; U Pb baddeleyite geochronology

Indexed keywords

AGE DETERMINATION; ANDESITE; BADDELEYITE; DIKE; FRACTIONAL CRYSTALLIZATION; FRACTIONATION; GEOCHEMISTRY; GEOCHRONOLOGY; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MAGMA; MELT; NEODYMIUM ISOTOPE; PETROGENESIS; PLATE TECTONICS; PROTEROZOIC; SUPERCONTINENT; THOLEIITE; TRACE ELEMENT; URANIUM-LEAD DATING;

CANADA; CHURCHILL PROVINCE; HEARNE PROVINCE;

EID: 84896394749     PISSN: 03019268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.precamres.2012.06.002     Document Type: Article

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