Single zircon grains record two Paleoproterozoic collisional events in the North China Craton

Precambrian Research

Volumn 177, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 266-276

  Zhao, Guochun ^a   Wilde, Simon A ^b   Guo, Jinghui ^c   Cawood, Peter A ^d   Sun, Min ^a   Li, Xuping ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^e SHANDONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Collision; Metamorphism; North China Craton; Paleoproterozoic; U Pb; Zircon

Indexed keywords

COLLISION ZONE; CONTINENTAL COLLISION; GARNET; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GNEISS; GRAPHITE; LITHOLOGY; METAMORPHISM; OROGENY; PROTEROZOIC; SILLIMANITE; TERRANE; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

CHINA; NORTH CHINA BLOCK; ORDOS;

EID: 76049123155     PISSN: 03019268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.precamres.2009.12.007     Document Type: Article

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