The Oyut Ulaan Volcanic Group: Stratigraphy, magmatic evolution and timing of Carboniferous arc development in SE Mongolia

Journal of the Geological Society

Volumn 167, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 491-509

  Blight, James H S ^a   Petterson, Michael G ^b   Crowley, Quentin G ^c,d   Cunningham, Dickson ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^c NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

^d TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCRETION; ACCRETIONARY PRISM; CARBONIFEROUS; CHEMOSTRATIGRAPHY; EMPLACEMENT; MAGMA; MAGMATISM; OROGENIC BELT; OROGENY; SEDIMENTARY ROCK; SEDIMENTOLOGY; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; VOLCANIC ROCK; VOLCANISM; ZIRCON;

MONGOLIA;

EID: 77951901671     PISSN: 00167649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/0016-76492009-094     Document Type: Article

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