Neoproterozoic Subduction and Rifting on the Northern Margin of the yangtze Plate, China: Implications for Rodinia Reconstruction

International Geology Review

Volumn 46, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 817-832

  yan, Quanren ^a   Hanson, Andrew D ^b   Wang, Zongqi ^a   Druschke, Peter A ^b   yan, Zhen ^c   Wang, Tao ^a   Liu, Dunyi ^a   Song, Biao ^a   Jian, Ping ^a   Zhou, Hui ^d   Jiang, Chunfa ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^d PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEROZOIC; RIFTING; RODINIA; SUBDUCTION; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TERRANE;

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

EID: 4744375315     PISSN: 00206814     EISSN: 19382839     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2747/0020-6814.46.9.817     Document Type: Article

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