Lower crustal processes leading to Mesozoic lithospheric thinning beneath eastern North China: Underplating, replacement and delamination

Lithos

Volumn 96, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 36-54

  Zhai, Mingguo ^a,c   Fan, Qicheng ^b   Zhang, Hongfu ^a,c   Sui, Jianli ^a   Shao, Ji'an ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

^c State Key Laboratory of Lithospheric Evolution   (China)

^d PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Delamination; Lithospheric thinning; Lower crustal processes; North China; Underplating

Indexed keywords

COLLISION ZONE; DELAMINATION; LITHOSPHERE; LOWER CRUST; MANTLE; MESOZOIC; OROGENY; REPLACEMENT; TECTONICS; UNDERPLATING; VOLCANIC ROCK; XENOLITH;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; NORTH CHINA BLOCK;

EID: 34248342700     PISSN: 00244937     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lithos.2006.09.016     Document Type: Article

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