Age, geochemistry, and tectonic implications of a late Paleozoic stitching pluton in the North Tian Shan suture zone, western China

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 122, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 627-640

  Han, Bao Fu ^a   Guo, Zhao Jie ^a   Zhang, Zhi Cheng ^a   Zhang, Lei ^a   Chen, Jia Fu ^a   Song, Biao ^b  

^a Peking University   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAKITES; CENTRAL ASIAN OROGENIC BELT; COLLISION EVENTS; GEOCHEMICAL CHARACTERISTIC; GRANITOIDS; ISOTOPIC SIGNATURES; LATE PALEOZOIC; MAGMATIC COMPLEXES; MAGMATIC ROCK; MAGMATISMS; MANTLE LITHOSPHERE; PALEO-ASIAN OCEAN; PERMIAN; SENSITIVE HIGH-RESOLUTION ION MICROPROBE; SLAB BREAK-OFF; TECTONIC IMPLICATIONS; WESTERN CHINA; XINJIANG; ZIRCON U-PB AGE;

BEARINGS (STRUCTURAL); GEOCHRONOLOGY; METALS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SILICATE MINERALS;

TECTONICS;

ACCRETION; AGE DETERMINATION; COLLISION ZONE; GEOCHEMISTRY; OROGENIC BELT; PALEOZOIC; PLUTON; SHRIMP DATING; SUTURE ZONE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC SETTING; URANIUM-LEAD DATING;

CHINA; TIEN SHAN; XINJIANG UYGUR;

EID: 76349112570     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 00167606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B26491.1     Document Type: Article

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