Lithostratigraphic and geochronological constraints on the evolution of the central Asian orogenic belt in SW Mongolia: Early paleozoic rifting followed by late paleozoic accretion

American Journal of Science

Volumn 310, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 523-574

  Kröner, Alfred ^a,b   Lehmann, Jérémie ^c,d   Schulmann, Karel ^c   Demoux, Antoine ^a,b   Lexa, Ondrej ^d,e   Tomurhuu, Dondov ^f   Štípská, Pavla ^c   Liu, Dunyi ^b   Wingat, Michael T D ^g  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF MINERAL RESOURCES   (China)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^d CZECH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (Czech Republic)

^e CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^f INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY AND CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (Mongolia)

^g GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Accretionary tectonics; Central Asian orogenic belt; Mongolia; Paleozoic; Tectono stratigraphy; Zircon geochronology

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; DEVONIAN; GEOCHRONOLOGY; LEAD-LEAD DATING; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; MAGMATISM; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; ORDOVICIAN; OROGENIC BELT; PALEOZOIC; RIFTING; SHRIMP DATING; SILURIAN; SPREADING CENTER; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONOSTRATIGRAPHY; TERRANE; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

MONGOLIA;

EID: 78149338881     PISSN: 00029599     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2475/07.2010.01     Document Type: Article

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