Nature and significance of the early cretaceous giant igneous event in eastern China

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 233, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 103-119

  Wu, Fu Yuan ^a,b   Lin, Jing Qian ^b   Wilde, Simon A ^c   Zhang, Xiao'Ou ^c   Yang, Jin Hui ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Delamination; Early Cretaceous; Eastern China; Giant igneous event; Liaodong Peninsula

Indexed keywords

DOLERITE; MESOZOIC IGNEOUS ROCKS; METAMORPHISM; SUPERPLUMES;

CONSTRAINT THEORY; DELAMINATION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GRANITE;

IGNEOUS ROCKS;

CRETACEOUS; DELAMINATION; MAGMATISM; TECTONICS;

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

EID: 17044413584     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2005.02.019     Document Type: Article

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