Zircons from rodingite in the Western Tianshan serpentinite complex: Mineral chemistry and U-Pb ages define nature and timing of rodingitization

Lithos

Volumn 118, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 17-34

  Li, Xu Ping ^a,b   Zhang, Li Fei ^b   Wilde, Simon A ^c   Song, Biao ^d   Liu, Xiao Ming ^e  

^a SHANDONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

^e NORTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Rodingite; SHRIMP U Pb dating; Western Tianshan; Zircon

Indexed keywords

CATHODOLUMINESCENCE; ECLOGITE; EXHUMATION; GEOCHEMISTRY; GEOCHRONOLOGY; OPHIOLITE; RODINGITE; SERPENTINITE; SHRIMP DATING; SLAB; ULTRAMAFIC ROCK; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

TIEN SHAN;

EID: 77953959836     PISSN: 00244937     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lithos.2010.03.009     Document Type: Article

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