The significance of Cenozoic magmatism from the western margin of the eastern syntaxis, southeast Tibet

Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology

Volumn 160, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 83-98

  Zhang, Hongfei ^a   Harris, Nigel ^b   Guo, Liang ^a   Xu, Wangchun ^a  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Eastern Himalayan syntaxis; Geochemistry; Granites; Sr Nd Hf isotopes; U Pb zircon dating

Indexed keywords

CENOZOIC; EOCENE; GRANITE; HAFNIUM; IGNEOUS GEOCHEMISTRY; IGNEOUS INTRUSION; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LUTETIUM; MAGMATISM; MICA; NEODYMIUM ISOTOPE; PLUTON; STRONTIUM ISOTOPE; TRACE ELEMENT; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

CHINA; XIZANG;

EID: 77953477437     PISSN: 00107999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00410-009-0467-5     Document Type: Article

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