Assembly, accretion and breakup of the Paleo-mesoproterozoic Columbia supercontinent: Records in the North China Craton

Gondwana Research

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 417-434

  Zhao, Guochun ^a   Sun, Min ^a   Wilde, Simon A ^b   Li, Sanzhong ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Collisional orogeny; Columbia; North China Craton; Rifting; Supercontinent

Indexed keywords

ACCRETION; CONTINENTAL BREAKUP; CONTINENTAL COLLISION; CRATON; EMPLACEMENT; MAGMATISM; PLATE CONVERGENCE; RIFTING; SUBDUCTION; SUPERCONTINENT;

CHINA; NORTH CHINA BLOCK;

EID: 0142062934     PISSN: 1342937X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1342-937X(05)70996-5     Document Type: Article

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