Regional-scale excess Ar wave in a Barrovian type metamorphic belt, eastern Tibetan Plateau

Island Arc

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 293-305

  Itaya, Tetsumaru ^a   Hyodo, Hironobu ^a   Tsujimori, Tatsuki ^b   Wallis, Simon ^c   Aoya, Mutsuki ^d   Kawakami, Tetsuo ^e   Gouzu, Chitaro ^a,f  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^e KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f Hiruzen Research Institute of Geology and Chronology   (Japan)

Author keywords

40Ar 39Ar analyses; Barrovian type metamorphism; Closure temperature; Eastern Tibet; Excess argon wave; Longmenshan orogenic belt

Indexed keywords

APATITE; ARGON ISOTOPE; BIOTITE; METAMORPHISM; MUSCOVITE; SHRIMP DATING; SILLIMANITE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; ULTRAHIGH PRESSURE METAMORPHISM;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

MICAS;

EID: 66849093694     PISSN: 10384871     EISSN: 14401738     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1738.2009.00668.x     Document Type: Article

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