Thermal evolution of two textural types of mafic granulites in the North China craton: Evidence for both mantle plume and collisional tectonics

Geological Magazine

Volumn 136, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 223-240

  Zhao, Guochun ^a,b   Wilde, Simon A ^a   Cawood, Peter A ^a   Lu, Liangzhao ^b  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CHANGCHUN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLISION ZONE; GRANULITE; MANTLE PLUME; P-T CONDITIONS; THERMAL EVOLUTION;

CHINA;

EID: 0032825978     PISSN: 00167568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S001675689900254X     Document Type: Article

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