When did the ultrahigh-pressure rocks reach the surface? A 207Pb/206Pb zircon, 40Ar/39Ar white mica, Si-in-white mica, single-grain provenance study of Dabie Shan synorogenic foreland sediments

Chemical Geology

Volumn 197, Issue 1-4, 2003, Pages 87-110

  Grimmer, Jens C ^a   Ratschbacher, Lothar ^a   McWilliams, Michael ^b   Franz, Leander ^a   Gaitzsch, Ines ^a   Tichomirowa, Marion ^a   Hacker, Bradley R ^c   Zhang, Yueqiao ^d  

^a TU BERGAKADEMIE FREIBERG   (Germany)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d Institute of Geomechanics   (China)

Author keywords

Dabie Shan; Detrital mica geobarometry; Provenance; South China craton; Synorogenic sediments

Indexed keywords

CENOZOIC; GEOBAROMETRY; MESOZOIC; MICA; OVERPRINTING; PROVENANCE; SEDIMENTARY ROCK; ULTRAHIGH PRESSURE METAMORPHISM;

CHINA; DABIE SHAN;

EID: 0038032744     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0009-2541(02)00321-2     Document Type: Article

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