Provenance of the Proterozoic Thelon Basin, Nunavut, Canada, from detrital zircon geochronology and detrital quartz oxygen isotopes

The Paleoproterozoic Thelon Basin in Nunavat, Canada, is one of several large quartz-dominated sedimentary basins devel-oped on Paleoproterozoic and Archean rocks of the Canadian Shield. Coarse-grained quartz to sub-feldspathic sandstones and conglomerates of the Thelon Formation comprise the basin...

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Main Authors: Sarah E. Palmer A, T. Kurt Kyser A, Eric E. Hiatt B
Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 2003
Subjects:
Rae
Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.537.2848
http://geol.queensu.ca/isotope_lab/pdfs/Palmer et al 2004 Thelon.pdf