Contrasting Middle Jurassic and Early Cretaceous mafic intrusive rocks from western Liaoning, North China craton: Petrogenesis and tectonic implications

Geological Magazine

Volumn 147, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 844-859

  Zhang, Xiaohui ^a   Zhang, Hongfu ^a   Jiang, Neng ^a   Wilde, Simon A ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Late Mesozoic; lithospheric thinning; mafic intrusions; North China craton; petrogenesis

Indexed keywords

BINARY ALLOYS; GEOCHRONOLOGY; ISOTOPES; LEAD ALLOYS; NEODYMIUM ALLOYS; PETROLOGY; SILICATE MINERALS; TRACE ELEMENTS; URANIUM ALLOYS; VOLCANIC ROCKS; ZIRCON;

LITHOSPHERIC THINNING; MAFIC INTRUSION; MESOZOIC; NORTH CHINA CRATON; PETROGENESIS;

STRONTIUM ALLOYS;

CRETACEOUS; DIKE; GABBRO; HARZBURGITE; IGNEOUS INTRUSION; JURASSIC; MAFIC ROCK; MAGMATISM; NEODYMIUM ISOTOPE; PETROGENESIS; RARE EARTH ELEMENT; STRONTIUM ISOTOPE; TECTONICS; TRACE ELEMENT; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

CHINA; LIAONING; NORTH CHINA BLOCK;

EID: 77958493028     PISSN: 00167568     EISSN: 14695081     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0016756810000373     Document Type: Article

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