Response to Note on "U-Pb zircon age constraints on the Dongwanzi ultramafic-mafic body, North China, confirm it is not an Archean ophiolite" by Kusky and Li

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 273, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 231-234

  Zhao, Guochun ^a   Wilde, Simon A ^b   Li, Sanzhong ^c   Sun, Min ^a   Grant, Matthew L ^b   Li, Xuping ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^d SHANDONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHEAN; GEOCHRONOLOGY; MAFIC ROCK; OPHIOLITE; ULTRAMAFIC ROCK; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

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

EID: 49149125401     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2008.04.017     Document Type: Note

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