Mineral isotope evidence for the contemporaneous process of Mesozoic granite emplacement and gneiss metamorphism in the Dabie orogen

Chemical Geology

Volumn 231, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 214-235

  Xie, Zhi ^a,b   Zheng, Yong Fei ^a,c   Zhao, Zi Fu ^a   Wu, Yuan Bao ^a   Wang, Zhengrong ^a   Chen, Jiangfeng ^a   Liu, Xiaoming ^b   Wu, Fu Yuan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b NORTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Collisional orogen; Extensional collapse; Hf and O isotopes; Isotopic equilibrium; Magmatism; Metamorphism; Radiometric dating

Indexed keywords

EMPLACEMENT; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GNEISS; GRANITE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MAGMATISM; MESOZOIC; METAMORPHISM; RADIOMETRIC METHOD;

EID: 33745659035     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2006.01.028     Document Type: Article

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