Early Permian high-K calc-alkaline volcanic rocks from NW Inner Mongolia, North China: Geochemistry, origin and tectonic implications

Journal of the Geological Society

Volumn 168, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 525-543

  Zhang, Xiaohui ^a   Wilde, Simon A ^b   Zhang, Hongfu ^a   Zhai, Mingguo ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENTRAL ASIAN OROGENIC BELT; CRUSTAL GROWTH; CRUSTAL MATERIALS; GEOCHEMICAL CHARACTERISTIC; HIGH FIELD STRENGTH ELEMENTS; INNER MONGOLIA; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; ISOTOPIC SIGNATURES; LARGE ION LITHOPHILE ELEMENTS; LITHOSPHERIC; LITHOSPHERIC MANTLE; MAGMA GENERATION; MANTLE SOURCE; MONGOLIA; NORTH CHINA; NORTHERN CHINA; PALAEOZOIC; PARTIAL MELT; PERMIAN; SLAB BREAK-OFF; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC IMPLICATIONS;

GEOCHEMISTRY; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GEODYNAMICS; ISOTOPES; LEAD; ROCKS; STRONTIUM; TECTONICS; VOLCANOES;

VOLCANIC ROCKS;

ASTHENOSPHERE; CALC ALKALINE ROCK; CONTINENTAL CRUST; IGNEOUS GEOCHEMISTRY; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LEAD ISOTOPE; MANTLE SOURCE; NEODYMIUM ISOTOPE; OROGENIC BELT; PALEOZOIC; PERMIAN; POTASSIUM; STRONTIUM ISOTOPE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; VOLCANIC ROCK;

CHINA; NEI MONGGOL;

EID: 79952255933     PISSN: 00167649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/0016-76492010-094     Document Type: Article

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