Zircon U-Pb chronology of the Nyingtri group, Southern Lhasa terrane, Tibetan plateau: Implications for Grenvillian and Pan-African provenance and Mesozoic-Cenozoic metamorphism

Journal of Geology

Volumn 118, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 677-690

  Dong, Xin ^a   Zhang, Zeming ^a   Santosh, M ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

^b KOCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDEAN OROGENY; CENOZOIC; CRYSTALLIZATION; DEPOSITION; GONDWANA; GRENVILLIAN OROGENY; MESOZOIC; METAMORPHISM; METASEDIMENTARY ROCK; ORTHOGNEISS; PAN AFRICAN OROGENY; PROVENANCE; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; TETHYS; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

CHINA; LHASA MOUNTAINS; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; XIZANG;

EPINEPHELUS FASCIATOMACULOSUS;

EID: 78649548437     PISSN: 00221376     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/656355     Document Type: Article

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