On the timing and duration of the destruction of the North China Craton

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 54, Issue 19, 2009, Pages 3379-3396

  Xu, YiGang ^a   Li, HongYan ^a,b   Pang, ChongJin ^a,b   He, Bin ^a  

^a GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Basin analysis; Cratonic destruction; Magmatism; North China; Timing and duration

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350543458     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11434-009-0346-5     Document Type: Review

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