The golden transformation of the Cretaceous plate subduction in the west Pacific

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 262, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 533-542

  Sun, Weidong ^a,b   Ding, Xing ^a,c   Hu, Yan Hua ^a,c   Li, Xian Hua ^a  

^a GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Cretaceous; eastern China; gold deposits; Pacific plate; plate interaction; subduction; Tan Lu fault

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSIONAL DEFORMATION; GOLD MINERALIZATION; PLATE SUBDUCTION; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TRANSPRESSIONAL DEFORMATION;

GOLD DEPOSITS; SEISMOLOGY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

TECTONICS;

CRETACEOUS; INTRAPLATE PROCESS; LODE DEPOSIT; PACIFIC PLATE; PLATE TECTONICS; SUBDUCTION; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TRANSPRESSION;

ONTONG JAVA PLATEAU; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 35048882571     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2007.08.021     Document Type: Article

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