Detrital zircon provenance from three turbidite depocenters of the Middle-Upper Triassic Songpan-Ganzi complex, central China: Record of collisional tectonics, erosional exhumation, and sediment production

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 122, Issue 11-12, 2010, Pages 2041-2062

  Weislogel, A L ^a   Graham, S A ^a   Chang, E Z ^a   Wooden, J L ^b   Gehrels, G E ^c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARITHMETIC MEAN; DEPOCENTERS; DETRITAL ZIRCON; HUWAN SHEAR ZONE; INFILLING; KOLMOGOROV-SMIRNOV; LA-ICP-MS; LASER-ABLATION INDUCTIVELY-COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY; NEAREST-NEIGHBOR ANALYSIS; NEOPROTEROZOIC; PALEOCURRENTS; PALEOPROTEROZOIC; PALEOZOIC; PRECAMBRIAN; QINLING-DABIE OROGEN; SANDSTONE SAMPLES; SEDIMENT PRODUCTION; SEDIMENT SOURCES; SENSITIVE HIGH-RESOLUTION ION MICROPROBE; SOUTH CHINA BLOCK; STRUCTURAL EVOLUTION; TRIASSIC; TURBIDITE SYSTEMS; TWO-SAMPLE TESTS; U-PB AGES; U-PB ZIRCON AGES; ULTRAHIGH PRESSURE; UPPER TRIASSIC; ZIRCON AGE;

ABLATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC INDUCTION; EROSION; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA; MASS SPECTROMETRY; POPULATION STATISTICS; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS; SILICATE MINERALS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONICS; ZIRCON; ZIRCON DEPOSITS;

GEOCHRONOLOGY;

COLLISION ZONE; CRYSTALLIZATION; DEPOCENTER; DETRITAL DEPOSIT; EXHUMATION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA METHOD; NEAREST NEIGHBOR ANALYSIS; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOZOIC; PROTEROZOIC; PROVENANCE; SANDSTONE; SEDIMENTATION RATE; SHRIMP DATING; TECTONIC SETTING; TERRANE; TRIASSIC; TURBIDITE; ULTRAHIGH PRESSURE METAMORPHISM; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

CHINA; DABIE MOUNTAINS; SONGPAN-GANZI BASIN;

DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA);

EID: 78049445673     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 00167606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B26606.1     Document Type: Article

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