U-Pb and 40Ar-39Ar geochronology of the Baiyunshan gneiss (central Guangdong, south China): Constraints on the timing of early Palaeozoic and Mesozoic tectonothermal events in the Wuyun (Wuyi-Yunkai) Orogen

Geological Magazine

Volumn 147, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 481-496

  Yang, Dong Sheng ^a   Li, Xian Hua ^b   Li, Wu Xian ^a   Liang, Xin Quan ^a   Long, Wen Guo ^a   Xiong, Xiao Lin ^a  

^a GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

40Ar 39Ar; Baiyunshan; Geochronology; Gneiss; South China; U Pb

Indexed keywords

BINARY ALLOYS; BIOTITE; GEOCHRONOLOGY; LEAD ALLOYS; METALS; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; MICA; SHELLFISH; TECTONICS; TIMING CIRCUITS; ZIRCON;

BAIYUNSHAN; CLOSURE TEMPERATURES; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; GNEISS; SENSITIVE HIGH-RESOLUTION ION MICROPROBE; SOUTH CHINA; TECTONO-THERMAL EVENT; ^40AR-^39AR;

POTASSIUM COMPOUNDS;

ARGON-ARGON DATING; CONTINENTAL BREAKUP; CRYSTALLIZATION; EXHUMATION; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; GEOCHRONOLOGY; MAGMATISM; MESOZOIC; OROGENY; ORTHOGNEISS; PALEOZOIC; RODINIA; SHRIMP DATING; URANIUM-LEAD DATING;

CHINA; GUANGDONG;

EID: 77953613407     PISSN: 00167568     EISSN: 14695081     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0016756809990811     Document Type: Article

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