Contrasting cooling rates of coeval granitic plutons in the Zhangzhou igneous complex, SE China: evidences from 40Ar/39Ar thermochronology and A1-amphibole geobarometer

Journal of the Geological Society of China

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 607-624

  Tien, Jung Li ^a   Chen, Cheng Hong ^a   Lo, Ching Hua ^a   Lai, Yi Shin ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COOLING; CRETACEOUS; GEOTHERMOBAROMETRY; GRANITE; THERMOCHRONOLOGY;

CHINA;

EID: 0344404341     PISSN: 10187057     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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