The Sino-Korean-Yangtze suture, the Huwan detachment, and the Paleozoic-Tertiary exhumation of (ultra)high-pressure rocks along the Tongbai-Xinxian-Dabie Mountains

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 403, Issue , 2006, Pages 45-75

  Ratschbacher, Lothar ^a   Franz, Leander ^a   Enkelmann, Eva ^a   Jonckheere, Raymond ^a   Pörschke, Axel ^a   Hacker, Bradley R ^b   Dong, Shuwen ^c   Zhang, Yueqiao ^c  

^a TU BERGAKADEMIE FREIBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF MINERAL RESOURCES   (China)

Author keywords

Huwan detachment; Paleozoic holocene exhumation path; Qinling dabie sulu orogen; Sino korean yangtze suture; Ultrahigh pressure orogeny

Indexed keywords

COOLING; DEFORMATION; FISSION REACTIONS; GEOCHRONOLOGY; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; PHOSPHATE MINERALS; SILICATE MINERALS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; ZIRCON;

HOLOCENES; HUWAN DETACHMENT; QINLING-DABIE-SULU OROGEN; SINO-KOREAN-YANGTZE SUTURE; ULTRAHIGH PRESSURE;

BUILDINGS;

EXHUMATION; OROGENY; PALEOZOIC; SUTURE ZONE; TERTIARY; ULTRAHIGH PRESSURE METAMORPHISM;

CHINA; DABIE MOUNTAINS; HENAN; TONGBAI; XINXIANG;

EID: 34248517036     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2006.2403(03)     Document Type: Article

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