Provenance of detrital zircons from the late Neoproterozoic to Ordovician sandstones of South China: Implications for its continental affinity

Geological Magazine

Volumn 147, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 974-980

  Wu, Long ^a   Jia, Dong ^a   Li, Haibin ^a   Deng, Fei ^a   Li, Yiquan ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

continental affinity; detrital zircon; Grenville age province; Laurentia; South China

Indexed keywords

BINARY ALLOYS; GEOCHRONOLOGY; LEAD ALLOYS; SILICATE MINERALS; ZIRCON;

CONTINENTAL AFFINITY; DETRITAL ZIRCON; GRENVILLE-AGE PROVINCE; LAURENTIA; SOUTH CHINA;

URANIUM ALLOYS;

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; FOLD AND THRUST BELT; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GONDWANA; GRENVILLIAN OROGENY; LAURENTIA; ORDOVICIAN; PROTEROZOIC; PROVENANCE; SANDSTONE; TECTONIC SETTING; TERRANE; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

CHINA; FUJIAN; WUYI MOUNTAIN;

EID: 77958461763     PISSN: 00167568     EISSN: 14695081     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0016756810000725     Document Type: Article

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