Provenance and age constraints of Paleozoic siliciclastic rocks from the Ellsworth Mountains in West Antarctica, as determined by detrital zircon geochronology

• Published in: GSA Bulletin
• Main Authors: Castillom, Paula, Fanning, C. Mark, Fernández, Rodrigo, Poblete, Fernando, Hervé Allamand, Francisco
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Geological Society of America 2017
• Subjects: Antarctic; Dronning Maud Land; West Antarctica; Shackleton; Transantarctic Mountains; Pacific; Ellsworth Mountains; Shackleton Range; Coats Land; Union Glacier; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1130/B31686.1; https://repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/148876

New sensitive high-resolution ion microprobe (SHRIMP) U-Pb detrital zircon ages from Cambrian to Permian-Carboniferous siliciclastic units in the Ellsworth Mountains constrain their provenance and maximum depositional age, as well as providing key information as to the tectonic evolution of a proble...