Grenvillian orogeny in the Southern Cathaysia Block: Constraints from U-Pb ages and Lu-Hf isotopes in zircon from metamorphic basement

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 53, Issue 19, 2008, Pages 3037-3050

  Wang, LiJuan ^a,b   Yu, JinHai ^a,b   O'Reilly, S Y ^b   Griffin, W L ^b   Sun, Tao ^a   Wei, ZhenYang ^a   Jiang, ShaoYong ^a   Shu, LiangShu ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cathaysia Block; Grenvillian orogeny; Lu Hf isotope; Neoproterozoic Rodinia supercontinent; Zircon U Pb age

Indexed keywords

EID: 52949152391     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11434-008-0262-0     Document Type: Article

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