40Ar/39Ar mineral ages from basement rocks in the Eastern Kunlun Mountains, NW China, and their tectonic implications

Tectonophysics

Volumn 398, Issue 3-4, 2005, Pages 199-224

  Liu, Yongjiang ^a,b,c   Genser, Johann ^b   Neubauer, Franz ^b   Jin, Wei ^a   Ge, Xiaohong ^a   Handler, Robert ^b   Takasu, Akira ^c  

^a JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

^c SHIMANE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

40Ar 39Ar; Eastern Kunlun; Geochronology; P T conditions; Tectonic; Western China

Indexed keywords

ARGON-ARGON DATING; BASEMENT ROCK; DEVONIAN; GEOCHRONOLOGY; METAMORPHISM; MINERAL; TECTONOPHYSICS;

ASIA; CHINA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; FAR EAST; KUNLUN MOUNTAINS; WORLD;

ENTOVALVA;

EID: 16344380799     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2005.02.007     Document Type: Article

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