Magmatic History and Crustal Genesis of South America: Constraints from U-Pb Ages and Hf Isotopes of Detrital Zircons in Modern Rivers

South America provides an outstanding laboratory for studies of magmatism and crustal evolution because it contains older Archean-Paleoproterozoic cratons that amalgamated during Mesoproterozoic and Neoproterozoic supercontinent assembly, as well as a long history of Andean magmatism that records cr...

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Main Author: Pepper, Martin Bailey
Other Authors: Gehrels, George E.
Language:en_US
Published: The University of Arizona. 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10150/347220