Two episodes of the Indosinian thermal event on the South China Block: Constraints from LA-ICPMS U-Pb zircon and electron microprobe monazite ages of the Darongshan S-type granitic suite

Gondwana Research

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1008-1023

  Chen, Cheng Hong ^a   Hsieh, Pei Shan ^b   Lee, Chi Yu ^a   Zhou, Han Wen ^c  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Taiwan)

^c CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Darongshan granitic suite; EMP monazite age dating; LA ICPMS zircon geochronology; South China block

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON PROBE ANALYSIS; GRANITE; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA METHOD; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MONAZITE; S-TYPE ROCK; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

CHINA; SOUTH CHINA BLOCK;

EID: 79954630194     PISSN: 1342937X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gr.2010.10.009     Document Type: Article

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