Uniform Permian 40Ar/39Ar detrital mica ages in the eastern Qaidam Basin (NW China): Where is the source?

Terra Nova

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 79-87

  Rieser, Andrea B ^a,c   Liu, Yongjiang ^b   Genser, Johann ^a   Neubauer, Franz ^a   Handler, Robert ^a   Ge, Xiao Hong ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

^b JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOCHRONOLOGY; MICA; PERMIAN; PROVENANCE;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; QAIDAM BASIN; QINGHAI;

EID: 33644863706     PISSN: 09544879     EISSN: 13653121     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3121.2005.00666.x     Document Type: Article

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