Detrital zircon age and Hf isotopic studies for metasedimentary rocks from the Chinese Altai: Implications for the Early Paleozoic tectonic evolution of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt

Tectonics

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2007, Pages

  Long, Xiaoping ^a,b   Sun, Min ^b   Yuan, Chao ^a   Xiao, Wenjiao ^c   Lin, Shoufa ^d   Wu, Fuyuan ^c   Xia, Xiaoping ^b   Cai, Keda ^a  

^a GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; HAFNIUM; METASEDIMENTARY ROCK; OROGENIC BELT; PALEOZOIC; PASSIVE MARGIN; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; URANIUM-LEAD DATING;

ALTAI MOUNTAINS; ASIA; EURASIA;

EID: 37549039433     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007TC002128     Document Type: Article

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