Detrital zircons from Cretaceous midcontinent strata reveal an Appalachian Mountains-Cordilleran foreland basin connection

Lithosphere

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 378-382

  Finzel, Emily S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GALLIUM; LEAD; SEDIMENTS; ZIRCON;

APPALACHIAN MOUNTAINS; DAKOTA FORMATIONS; DETRITAL ZIRCON; DETRITAL ZIRCON GRAINS; FLUVIAL SYSTEMS; FORELAND BASIN; PALEOPROTEROZOIC; SEDIMENT FLUX;

GEOCHRONOLOGY;

ALBIAN; BEDROCK; CENOMANIAN; ECONOMIC GEOLOGY; MANTLE PLUME; UPLIFT; ZIRCON;

APPALACHIANS; CORDILLERA; PARAGUAY;

EID: 84907610932     PISSN: 19418264     EISSN: 19474253     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/L400.1     Document Type: Article

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