Time scale of an early to mid-Paleozoic orogenic cycle of the long-lived Central Asian Orogenic Belt, Inner Mongolia of China: Implications for continental growth

Lithos

Volumn 101, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 233-259

  Jian, Ping ^a   Liu, Dunyi ^a   Kröner, Alfred ^b   Windley, Brian F ^c   Shi, Yuruo ^a   Zhang, Fuqin ^d   Shi, Guanghai ^d   Miao, Laicheng ^d   Zhang, Wei ^a   Zhang, Qi ^d   Zhang, Liqao ^e   Ren, Jishun ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^e Inner Mongolian Institute of Geology   (China)

Author keywords

Central Asian Orogenic Belt; Continental growth; Orogenic cycle; SHRIMP; SSZ ophiolite

Indexed keywords

ADAKITE; CONTINENTAL COLLISION; CONTINENTAL CRUST; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; OPHIOLITE; OROGENIC BELT; PALEOZOIC; PASSIVE MARGIN; PLUTONISM; SHRIMP DATING; SLAB; TIMESCALE; VOLCANISM;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; NEI MONGGOL;

EID: 39849088717     PISSN: 00244937     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lithos.2007.07.005     Document Type: Article

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