Provenance of Lower Cretaceous Wölong Volcaniclastics in the Tibetan Tethyan Himalaya: Implications for the final breakup of Eastern Gondwana

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 223, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 193-205

  Hu, Xiumian ^a   Jansa, L ^b   Chen, Lei ^a   Griffin, W L ^c   O'Reilly, S Y ^c   Wang, Jiangang ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^c MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Detrital zircon; Greater India; Lower Cretaceous; Provenance; Southern Tibet; Tethyan Himalaya; U Pb and Hf isotopes; W long Volcaniclastics

Indexed keywords

ALBIAN; ALKALI BASALT; ARENITE; CONTINENTAL BREAKUP; CONTINENTAL CRUST; CRETACEOUS; DECOMPRESSION; DETRITAL DEPOSIT; GONDWANA; HAFNIUM; PARTIAL MELTING; PROVENANCE; SUPERCONTINENT; TECTONIC SETTING; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; VOLCANIC ROCK; VOLCANICLASTIC DEPOSIT; VOLCANISM; ZIRCON;

AUSTRALIA; CHINA; INDIA; XIZANG;

EID: 75549083302     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2009.11.008     Document Type: Article

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