Detrital-zircon geochronology of Late Paleozoic sedimentary rocks in eastern Heilongjiang Province, NE China: Implications for the tectonic evolution of the eastern segment of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt

Tectonophysics

Volumn 485, Issue 1-4, 2010, Pages 42-51

  Meng, En ^a   Xu, Wen Liang ^a,b,c   Pei, Fu Ping ^a   Yang, De Bin ^a   Yu, Yang ^a   Zhang, Xing Zhou ^a  

^a JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NORTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Central Asian Orogenic Belt; Detrital zircon; Late Paleozoic; NE China; Tectonic evolution; U Pb geochronology

Indexed keywords

CENTRAL ASIAN OROGENIC BELT; DETRITAL ZIRCON; LATE PALEOZOIC; NE CHINA; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; U-PB GEOCHRONOLOGY;

INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY; METALS; OXIDE MINERALS; QUARTZ; ROCKS; SANDSTONE; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SILICATE MINERALS; TECTONICS; ZIRCON;

GEOCHRONOLOGY;

DETRITAL DEPOSIT; DEVONIAN; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GRANITOID; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA METHOD; OROGENIC BELT; PALEOZOIC; PHANEROZOIC; SEDIMENTARY ROCK; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

CHINA; HEILONGJIANG;

EID: 77950532419     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2009.11.015     Document Type: Article

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