LA-ICP-MS U-Pb zircon geochronology of early Neoproterozoic mafic-intermediat intrusions from NW margin of the Yangtze Block, South China: Implication for tectonic evolution

Precambrian Research

Volumn 154, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 221-235

  Xiao, Long ^a   Zhang, Hong Fei ^a   Ni, Ping Ze ^a   Xiang, Hua ^a   Liu, Xiao Ming ^b  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^b NORTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Bikou Terrane; Laser ablation ICP MS zircon dating; Mafic intermediate intrusions; Neoproterozoic; Subduction; Yangtze Block

Indexed keywords

GEOCHEMISTRY; GEOCHRONOLOGY; IGNEOUS INTRUSION; LASER METHOD; MAFIC ROCK; MAGMATISM; MARGINAL SEA; PLATE TECTONICS; PROTEROZOIC; SUBDUCTION; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC RECONSTRUCTION; TERRANE; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

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

EID: 33947589412     PISSN: 03019268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.precamres.2006.12.013     Document Type: Article

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