Detrital zircon U-Pb geochronology applied to tectonics

Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Volumn 42, Issue , 2014, Pages 127-149

  Gehrels, George ^a  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Detrital zircons; Maximum depositional age; Provenance; Tectonics; U Pb geochronology

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; SEDIMENTOLOGY; TECTONICS; ZIRCON;

DETRITAL ZIRCON; MAXIMUM DEPOSITIONAL AGE; PROVENANCE; SCIENCE RESEARCH; SEDIMENTARY SYSTEMS; SEDIMENTARY UNITS; U-PB GEOCHRONOLOGY; ZIRCON CRYSTALS;

LEAD;

DATING METHOD; EARTH SCIENCE; GEOCHRONOLOGY; RESEARCH METHOD; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; ZIRCON;

EID: 84899849133     PISSN: 00846597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-earth-050212-124012     Document Type: Review

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