Triassic granitoids in the eastern Songpan Ganzi Fold Belt, SW China: Magmatic response to geodynamics of the deep lithosphere

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 290, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 481-492

  Yuan, Chao ^a   Zhou, Mei Fu ^b   Sun, Min ^b   Zhao, Yongjiu ^a   Wilde, Simon ^c   Long, Xiaoping ^a   Yan, Danping ^d  

^a GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

adakite; convective thinning; lithospheric flexure; low degree partial melting; shoshonite; Songpan Ganzi Fold Belt

Indexed keywords

A-TYPE GRANITE; ADAKITES; COMPRESSIONAL; CONTINENTAL COLLISIONS; DEEPWATER; FOLD BELTS; GEODYNAMIC PROCESS; GRANITIC PLUTONS; GRANITOIDS; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LARGE ION LITHOPHILE ELEMENTS; LATE TRIASSIC; LITHOSPHERIC FLEXURE; LITHOSPHERIC MANTLE; LOW DEGREE; LOWER CRUST; MAGMATISMS; NB/TA RATIO; OROGENIC BELTS; PALEO-TETHYS; PARTIAL MELTING; PASSIVE CONTINENTAL MARGIN; PLUTONS; REE PATTERN; SURFACE DEPOSITS; TIDAL FLAT SEDIMENT; TRIASSIC;

BARIUM; GEOPHYSICS; GRANITE; MELTING; NEODYMIUM; STRONTIUM; TECTONICS;

BARIUM COMPOUNDS;

A-TYPE ROCK; ARC-CONTINENT COLLISION; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; GEODYNAMICS; GRANITOID; I-TYPE ROCK; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LOWER CRUST; MAGMATISM; METASOMATISM; OROGENIC BELT; PARTIAL MELTING; PASSIVE MARGIN; PLUTON; RARE EARTH ELEMENT; SHOSHONITE; TRIASSIC;

CHINA; SICHUAN; SONGPAN-GARZE FOLD BELT;

EID: 75149175956     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2010.01.005     Document Type: Article

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