Contrasting provenance of Late Archean metasedimentary rocks from the Wutai Complex, North China Craton: Detrital zircon U-Pb, whole-rock Sm-Nd isotopic, and geochemical data

International Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 97, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 443-458

  Li, Qiugen ^a,b   Liu, Shuwen ^b   Wang, Zongqi ^a   Chu, Zhuyin ^c   Song, Biao ^a   Wang, Yanbin ^a   Wang, Tao ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

^b Peking University   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Geochemistry; Late Archean metasediments; North China Craton; Provenance; Tectonic setting

Indexed keywords

ARCHEAN; DEPOSITION; GEOCHEMISTRY; METASEDIMENTARY ROCK; PROVENANCE; SAMARIUM-NEODYMIUM DATING; TECTONIC SETTING; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; WEATHERING;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; NORTH CHINA BLOCK;

EID: 42149102629     PISSN: 14373254     EISSN: 14373262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00531-007-0170-6     Document Type: Article

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