Accretionary growth and crust formation in the Central Asian Orogenic Belt and comparison with the Arabian-Nubian shield

Memoir of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 200, Issue , 2007, Pages 181-209

  Kroner A ^a,b   Windley, B F ^c   Badarch, G ^d   Tomurtogoo, O ^d   Hegner, E ^e   Jahn, B M ^f   Gruschka, S ^a   Khain, E V ^g   Demoux, A ^a   Wingate, M T D ^b  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^d INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY AND CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (Mongolia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^f INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^g GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Accretion; Arabian Nubian shield; Central Asia; Kazakhstan; Mongolia; Zircon geochronology

Indexed keywords

GEOCHRONOLOGY; SILICATE MINERALS; VOLCANIC ROCKS; ZIRCON;

ACCRETION; CENTRAL ASIA; CENTRAL ASIAN OROGENIC BELT; HIGH PRESSURE METAMORPHISM; ISOTOPIC CHARACTERISTICS; KAZAKHSTAN; LATE NEOPROTEROZOIC; MONGOLIA;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ACCRETION; CRATON; EARTH; GEOCHRONOLOGY; ISLAND ARC; METAMORPHISM; OPEN OCEAN; OROGENIC BELT; PALEOZOIC; PRECAMBRIAN; SEAMOUNT; ZIRCON;

CHINA; KAZAKHSTAN; KOKCHETAV; NORTH CHINA BLOCK; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SIBERIA; SIBERIAN CRATON;

EID: 56749148890     PISSN: 00721069     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2007.1200(11)     Document Type: Conference Paper

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