Detrital zircon U-Pb and Hf isotopic data from the Xigaze fore-arc basin: Constraints on Transhimalayan magmatic evolution in southern Tibet

Chemical Geology

Volumn 271, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 13-25

  Wu, Fu Yuan ^a   Ji, Wei Qiang ^a   Liu, Chuan Zhou ^a   Chung, Sun Lin ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Detrital zircon; Hf isotope; Tibet; U Pb geochronology; Xigaze Group

Indexed keywords

AGE DETERMINATION; EOCENE; FOREARC BASIN; GEOCHRONOLOGY; HAFNIUM; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; ISOTOPIC RATIO; JURASSIC; MAGMATISM; PROVENANCE; UPLIFT; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

CHINA; LHASA MOUNTAINS; XIGAZE; XIZANG;

EID: 75149198685     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2009.12.007     Document Type: Article

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