Composite nature of the North China granulite-facies Belt: Tectonothermal and geochronological constraints

Gondwana Research

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 337-348

  Zhao, Guochun ^a   Sun, Min ^a   Wilde, Simon A ^b   Sanzhong, Li ^c   Liu, Shuwen ^d   Zhang, Jian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^d PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Accretion; Archean; Collision; Granulite facies metamorphism; North China Craton; Paleoproterozoic

Indexed keywords

ARCHEAN; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GRANULITE FACIES; MAGMA; P-T-T PATH; PROTEROZOIC; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

CHINA; NORTH CHINA BLOCK;

EID: 33644790369     PISSN: 1342937X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gr.2005.10.004     Document Type: Article

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