The Gaojiacun intrusion: Rift- or subduction-related?. Comment on "Revisiting the "Yanbian Terrane": Implications for Neoproterozoic tectonic evolution of the western Yangtze Block, South China" by Li et al. (2006) [Precambrian Res. 151 (2006) 14-30]

Precambrian Research

Volumn 155, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 324-327

  Munteanu, Marian ^a   Yao, Yong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Arc magmatism; China; Gaojiacun; Neoproterozoic

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL ARC; CONTINENTAL DRIFT; IGNEOUS INTRUSION; MAGMATISM; PROTEROZOIC; RIFT ZONE; SUBDUCTION; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

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

EID: 34247637932     PISSN: 03019268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.precamres.2006.12.005     Document Type: Note

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