Cretaceous ridge subduction along the lower yangtze river belt, Eastern China

Economic Geology

Volumn 104, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 303-321

  Ling, Ming Xing ^a,b   Wang, Fang Yue ^a,b   Ding, Xing ^a,b   Hu, Yan Hua ^a,b   Zhou, Ji Bin ^a   Zartman, Robert E ^a,c   Yang, Xiao Yong ^d   Sun, Weidong ^a,d  

^a GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAKITE; ADAKITIC ROCKS; CRUSTAL MATERIALS; CRUSTAL THICKENINGS; EARLY CRETACEOUS; EASTERN CHINA; GEOCHEMICAL CHARACTERISTIC; GRANITOIDS; ISOTOPE VALUES; JURASSIC; LITHOSPHERIC MANTLE; LOWER CRUST; MAGMATIC ROCK; MANTLE WEDGE; MESOZOIC; METALLOGENIC BELT; MID-OCEAN RIDGES; ORE GENESIS; PACIFIC PLATES; PARTIAL MELTING; RIDGE SUBDUCTION; SHALLOW DEPTHS; SLAB WINDOWS; SUBDUCTING SLABS; TWO PLATES; YANGTZE RIVER;

ACOUSTIC FIELDS; BASALT; MELTING; NEODYMIUM; NIOBIUM; ORE DEPOSIT GEOLOGY; ORE DEPOSITS; RIVERS; ROCKS; STRONTIUM; TECTONICS;

IGNEOUS ROCKS;

BELT; CRETACEOUS; GRANITOID; JURASSIC; MESOZOIC; NIOBIUM; STRONTIUM ISOTOPE; SUBDUCTION;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; YANGTZE RIVER;

EID: 67649663964     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gsecongeo.104.2.303     Document Type: Article

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