Ca. 2.5 billion year old coeval ultramafic-mafic and syenitic dykes in Eastern Hebei: Implications for cratonization of the North China Craton

Precambrian Research

Volumn 180, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 143-155

  Li, Tiesheng ^a   Zhai, Mingguo ^a   Peng, Peng ^a   Chen, Liang ^a,b   Guo, Jinghui ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b NORTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

2.5 Ga age; Between Archean Proterozoic boundary; Cratonization; Ultramafic mafic and syenitic dykes

Indexed keywords

ARCHEAN; CONTINENTAL CRUST; CRATON; CRYSTALLIZATION; DIKE; GABBRO; GEOCHEMISTRY; GRANITE; IGNEOUS INTRUSION; ISOTOPIC RATIO; MAFIC ROCK; MANTLE SOURCE; METAMORPHISM; OLIVINE; PETROLOGY; PROTEROZOIC; SHRIMP DATING; SYENITE; ULTRAMAFIC ROCK; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

CHINA; HEBEI; NORTH CHINA BLOCK;

EID: 77953650536     PISSN: 03019268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.precamres.2010.04.001     Document Type: Article

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