Reply to the comment by Zhou et al. on: "Revisiting the "Yanbian Terrane": Implications for Neoproterozoic tectonic evolution of the western Yangtze Block, South China" [Precambrian Res. 151 (2006) 14-30] [Precambrian Res. 154 (2007) 153-157]

Precambrian Research

Volumn 155, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 318-323

  Li, Xian Hua ^a   Li, Zheng Xiang ^b   Sinclair, James A ^b   Li, Wu Xian ^a   Carter, Garreth ^b  

^a GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Neoproterozoic; Tectonomagmatic affiliations; U Pb geochronology; Yangtze Block

Indexed keywords

GEOCHRONOLOGY; MAGMATISM; PROTEROZOIC; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; URANIUM-LEAD DATING;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; SICHUAN; YANBIAN TERRANE; YANGTZE PLATFORM;

EID: 34247594865     PISSN: 03019268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.precamres.2006.11.012     Document Type: Note

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