Late Paleozoic adakites and Nb-enriched basalts from northern Xinjiang, northwest China: Evidence for the southward subduction of the Paleo-Asian Oceanic Plate

Island Arc

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 55-68

  Zhang, Haixiang ^a,b   Niu, Hecai ^a   Sato, Hiroaki ^b   Yu, Xueyuan ^a   Shan, Qiang ^a   Zhang, Boyou ^a   Ito, Jun'ichi ^b   Nagao, Takashi ^c  

^a GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

^b KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adakite; Central Asian Orogenic Belt; Kazakhstan Junggar Plate; Nb enriched basalt; Paleo Asian Ocean; Subduction

Indexed keywords

PALEOZOIC; SUBDUCTION ZONE;

ASIA; CHINA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; FAR EAST; WORLD; XINJIANG UYGUR;

ENTOVALVA;

EID: 15944366919     PISSN: 10384871     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1738.2004.00457.x     Document Type: Article

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