Stabilization of the southern portion of the São Francisco craton, SE Brazil, through a long-lived period of potassic magmatism
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2013
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Romano, Rafael
Lana, Cristiano
Alkmim, Fernando F.
Stevens, Gary
Armstrong, Richard
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Although the southern portion of the São Francisco craton in southeast Brazil encompasses one of the largest segments of Meso- to Neoarchaean crust in the South American plate, there is little understanding of the processes leading to cratonization of th
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Keywords: craton; crustal structure; deposition; geochronology; granitoid; igneous intrusion; magmatism; partial melting; potassic rock; tectonic setting; uranium-lead dating; Brazil; Minas Gerais; Quadrilatero Ferrifero; Sao Francisco Craton Brazil; Neoarchaean; Potassic granitoids; Quadrilátero Ferrífero; São Francisco craton; U-Pb geochronology
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Precambrian Research
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