The crust of Cathaysia: Age, assembly and reworking of two terranes

Precambrian Research

Volumn 158, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 51-78

  Xu, Xisheng ^a,b   O'Reilly, Suzanne Y ^b   Griffin, W L ^b   Wang, Xiaolei ^a,b   Pearson, N J ^b   He, Zhenyu ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cathaysia tectonism; Crust mantle interaction; Crustal evolution; SE China crust; Zircon geochronology; Zircon Hf isotopes

Indexed keywords

ARCHEAN; CALEDONIAN OROGENY; CRUST-MANTLE BOUNDARY; CRUSTAL EVOLUTION; GRANITOID; HAFNIUM; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; JURASSIC-CRETACEOUS BOUNDARY; MAGMA; MAGMATISM; PROTEROZOIC; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

ASIA; CATHAYSIA BLOCK; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; OU RIVER; YANGTZE PLATFORM; ZHEJIANG;

EID: 34547789209     PISSN: 03019268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.precamres.2007.04.010     Document Type: Article

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