Late Permian to Early Triassic mafic to felsic intrusive rocks from North Liaoning, North China: Petrogenesis and implications for Phanerozoic continental crustal growth

Lithos

Volumn 117, Issue 1-4, 2010, Pages 283-306

  Zhang, Xiaohui ^a   Zhang, Hongfu ^a   Wilde, Simon A ^b   Yang, Yueheng ^a   Chen, Haihong ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Continental growth; Geochemistry; Late Permian Early Triassic; Mafic and felsic intrusive rocks; North China Craton; Petrogenesis

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; EMPLACEMENT; FELSIC ROCK; FRACTIONAL CRYSTALLIZATION; IGNEOUS GEOCHEMISTRY; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MAFIC ROCK; MANTLE SOURCE; PARTIAL MELTING; PERMIAN; PETROGENESIS; TRIASSIC; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

CHINA; LIAONING; NORTH CHINA BLOCK;

EID: 77952673224     PISSN: 00244937     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lithos.2010.03.005     Document Type: Article

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