Two contrasting Phanerozoic orogenic systems revealed by hafnium isotope data

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 333-337

  Collins, William J ^a,d   Belousova, Elena A ^b   Kemp, Anthony I S ^a   Murphy, J Brendan ^c  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c ST FRANCIS XAVIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL COLLISION; CONTINENTAL CRUST; CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; GEODYNAMICS; HAFNIUM; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; MANTLE CONVECTION; MOUNTAIN REGION; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; OROGENY; PHANEROZOIC; SUBDUCTION; ZIRCON;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC RIM;

EID: 79955640886     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo1127     Document Type: Article

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