Ridge subduction and crustal growth in the Central Asian Orogenic Belt: Evidence from Late Carboniferous adakites and high-Mg diorites in the western Junggar region, northern Xinjiang (west China)

Chemical Geology

Volumn 277, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 281-300

  Tang, Gongjian ^a,b   Wang, Qiang ^a,c   Wyman, Derek A ^d   Li, Zheng Xiang ^c   Zhao, Zhen Hua ^a   Jia, Xiao Hui ^a,b   Jiang, Zi Qi ^a,b  

^a GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adakite; Central Asian Orogenic Belt; Crustal growth; Ridge subduction; Slab window; Xinjiang

Indexed keywords

ADAKITES; CENTRAL ASIAN OROGENIC BELT; CRUSTAL GROWTH; RIDGE SUBDUCTION; SLAB WINDOW; XINJIANG;

ANALYTICAL GEOCHEMISTRY; ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; COMPLEXATION; HAFNIUM; ISOTOPES; LEVEES; MELTING; MINERALOGY; NEODYMIUM; ROCKS; SILICATE MINERALS; STRONTIUM; TECTONICS; TRACE ELEMENTS; VOLCANIC ROCKS; YTTERBIUM; ZIRCON;

GEOCHRONOLOGY;

ACCRETION; ADAKITE; ARC-ARC COLLISION; CARBONIFEROUS; COLLISION ZONE; DIORITE; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GRANODIORITE; HAFNIUM; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; LEAD ISOTOPE; MAGNESIUM; MID-OCEAN RIDGE BASALT; NEODYMIUM ISOTOPE; OROGENIC BELT; PALEOZOIC; PARTIAL MELTING; PLATE TECTONICS; PORPHYRY; STRONTIUM ISOTOPE; SUBDUCTION ZONE; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

CENTRAL ASIA; CHINA; JUNGGAR BASIN; XINJIANG UYGUR;

EID: 77957165290     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2010.08.012     Document Type: Article

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