Terrane transfer during the Grenville orogeny: Tracing the Amazonian ancestry of southern Appalachian basement through Pb and Nd isotopes

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 228, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 161-176

  Tohver, E ^a   Bettencourt, J S ^a   Tosdal, R ^b   Mezger, K ^c   Leite, W B ^d   Payolla, B L ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^d SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^e Centrais Elétricas do Norte do Brasil S A Eletronorte   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Amazon craton; Blue Ridge; Exotic terrane; Grenville orogeny; Mesoproterozoic paleogeography; Pb isotopes; Rodinia

Indexed keywords

ISOTOPES; LEAD; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; NEODYMIUM; RECONSTRUCTION (STRUCTURAL);

GRENVILLE OROGENY; PALEOGEOGRAPHIC RECONSTRUCTIONS; RODINIA SUPERCONTINENT;

ROCK MECHANICS;

CRATON; GRENVILLIAN OROGENY; LEAD ISOTOPE; NEODYMIUM ISOTOPE; PROTEROZOIC; RODINIA; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

EID: 8744302024     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2004.09.029     Document Type: Article

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