Delamination and destruction of the North China Craton

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 54, Issue 19, 2009, Pages 3367-3378

  Gao, Shan ^a,b   Zhang, JunFeng ^a   Xu, WenLiang ^c   Liu, YongSheng ^a  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^b NORTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Delamination; Eclogite; Melt peridotite interaction; North China Craton; Pyroxenite

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350540354     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11434-009-0395-9     Document Type: Article

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