U-Pb dating on single detrital zircon grains from the Triassic Songpan-Ganze flysch (Central China): Provenance and tectonic correlations

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 152, Issue 1-4, 1997, Pages 217-231

  Bruguier, O ^a   Lancelot, J R ^a   Malavieille, J ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ MONTPELLIER 2   (France)

Author keywords

Flysch; Pb Pb; Provenance; Tectonics; U Pb; Zircon

Indexed keywords

FLYSCH; PROVENANCE; TECTONICS; TRIASSIC; URANIUM/LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

CHINA, SONGPAN-GANZE FLYSCH BELT;

EID: 0031404548     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0012-821x(97)00138-6     Document Type: Article

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