The ∼860-Ma, cordilleran-type guandaoshan dioritic pluton in the Yangtze Block, SW China: Implications for the origin of neoproterozoic magmatism

Journal of Geology

Volumn 116, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 238-253

  Sun, Wei Hua ^a   Zhou, Mei Fu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBOLE; CHONDRITE; DIORITE; MAFIC ROCK; MAGMATISM; MANTLE SOURCE; PLUTON; PROTEROZOIC; QUARTZ; RARE EARTH ELEMENT; TECTONIC SETTING;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; YANGTZE PLATFORM;

ARANEAE;

EID: 44149087877     PISSN: 00221376     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/587881     Document Type: Article

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