Assembling North China Craton within the Columbia supercontinent: The role of double-sided subduction

Precambrian Research

Volumn 178, Issue 1-4, 2010, Pages 149-167

  Santosh, M ^a  

^a KOCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Columbia supercontinent; North China Craton; Ocean Plate Stratigraphy; Seismic tomography; Subduction polarity; Tectonics

Indexed keywords

ACCRETION; CONTINENTAL ARC; CRUSTAL THINNING; EROSION; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; P-WAVE; PACIFIC PLATE; PROTEROZOIC; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC WAVE; SLAB; SUBDUCTION; SUPERCONTINENT; SUTURE ZONE; UNDERPLATING;

CHINA; NEI MONGGOL; NORTH CHINA BLOCK; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (WEST);

EID: 77949261545     PISSN: 03019268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.precamres.2010.02.003     Document Type: Article

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