SHRIMP zircon U-Pb age, litho- and biostratigraphic analyses of the Huaiyu Domain in South China - Evidence for a Neoproterozoic orogen, not Late Paleozoic-Early Mesozoic collision

Episodes

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 244-252

  Shu, Liangshu ^a   Faure, Michel ^b   Jiang, Shaoyong ^a   Yang, Qun ^c   Wang, Yujing ^c  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITÉ D'ORLÉANS   (France)

^c NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND PALAEONTOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; GEOCHRONOLOGY; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; MESOZOIC; OPHIOLITE; OROGENY; PALEOZOIC; PETROLOGY; PROTEROZOIC; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

ACRITARCHA; RADIOLARIA (PROTOZOANS);

EID: 33846657787     PISSN: 07053797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18814/epiiugs/2006/v29i4/002     Document Type: Article

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