Rapid exhumation and cooling of the Liaonan metamorphic core complex: Inferences from 40Ar/39Ar thermochronology and implications for Late Mesozoic extension in the eastern North China Craton

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 119, Issue 11-12, 2007, Pages 1405-1414

  Yang, Jin Hui ^a   Wu, Fu Yuan ^a   Chung, Sun Lin ^b   Lo, Ching Hua ^b   Wilde, Simon A ^c   Davis, Gregory A ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Argon thermochronology; Crustal extension; Early Cretaceous; Liaodong Peninsula; Liaonan metamorphic core complex; Metamorphic core complex; North China Craton

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL EXTENSION; METAMORPHIC CORE COMPLEX; THERMOCHRONOLOGY;

CRYSTALLINE ROCKS; CRYSTALLIZATION; IGNEOUS ROCKS; LITHOLOGY; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; PETROLOGY; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; TECTONICS;

GEOCHRONOLOGY;

ARGON-ARGON DATING; BASIN EVOLUTION; COOLING; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DETACHMENT FAULT; EXHUMATION; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FAULTING; METAMORPHIC ROCK; PACIFIC PLATE; PLATE TECTONICS; PLUTON; THERMOCHRONOLOGY;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; LIAODONG PENINSULA; LIAONING; NORTH CHINA BLOCK;

EID: 38149000802     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 00167606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B26085.1     Document Type: Article

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