Detrital zircon ages and Hf isotopes of the early Paleozoic flysch sequence in the Chinese Altai, NW China: New constrains on depositional age, provenance and tectonic evolution

Tectonophysics

Volumn 480, Issue 1-4, 2010, Pages 213-231

  Long, Xiaoping ^a   Yuan, Chao ^a   Sun, Min ^b   Xiao, Wenjiao ^c   Zhao, Guochun ^b   Wang, Yujing ^a   Cai, Keda ^b   Xia, Xiaoping ^b   Xie, Liewen ^c  

^a GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Accretion complex; Altai; Detrital zircon; Hf isotope; Provenance; Tectonics

Indexed keywords

ALTAI; ALTERNATIVE SOURCE; CENTRAL ASIAN OROGENIC BELT; DETRITAL ZIRCON; DEVONIANS; EARLY PALEOZOIC; GRANITOIDS; HF ISOTOPE; ISLAND ARC; MAGMATIC SOURCES; METAMORPHIC BELTS; MULTISOURCES; NEOPROTEROZOIC; NW CHINA; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC MODELS; U-PB DATING;

GRANITE; HAFNIUM; ISOTOPES; SILICATE MINERALS; TECTONICS; ZIRCON;

GEOCHRONOLOGY;

ACCRETION; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; DETRITAL DEPOSIT; DEVONIAN; FLYSCH; GRANITOID; HAFNIUM; METAMORPHISM; PALEOZOIC; PROTEROZOIC; PROVENANCE; RHYOLITE; SILURIAN; SUBDUCTION; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

ALTAI MOUNTAINS;

EID: 72749106532     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2009.10.013     Document Type: Article

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