Widespread Archean basement beneath the Yangtze craton

Geology

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 417-420

  Zheng, Jianping ^a,b   Griffin, W L ^b,c   O'Reilly, Suzanne Y ^b   Zhang, Ming ^b   Pearson, Norman ^b   Pan, Yuanming ^d  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Archean basement; Crustal evolution; Deep crustal xenocryst; East China; Hf isotopes; Yangtze craton; Zircon geochronology

Indexed keywords

ARCHEAN BASEMENT; CRUSTAL EVOLUTIONS; DEEP-CRUSTAL XENOCRYST; YANGTZE CRATON; ZIRCON GEOCHRONOLOGY;

GEOCHEMISTRY; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GEOLOGIC MODELS; HAFNIUM; ISOTOPES; LEAD; ROCKS; URANIUM;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

ARCHEAN; BASEMENT ROCK; CRUSTAL EVOLUTION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; PROTEROZOIC; URANIUM-LEAD DATING;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; YANGTZE PLATFORM;

EID: 33745189746     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G22282.1     Document Type: Article

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