Cooling paths of the NE China crust during the Mesozoic extensional tectonics: Example from the south-Liaodong peninsula metamorphic core complex

Journal of Asian Earth Sciences

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1048-1065

  Lin, Wei ^a   Monié, Patrick ^b   Faure, Michel ^c   Schärer, Urs ^d   Shi, Yonghong ^e   Breton, Nicole Le ^c   Wang, Qingchen ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITÉ MONTPELLIER 2   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ D'ORLÉANS   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

^e HEFEI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Cooling paths; Crustal extension; Lithospheric removal; Metamorphic core complex; North China Craton; Radiometric ages

Indexed keywords

AGE DETERMINATION; COOLING; CRETACEOUS; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DETACHMENT FAULT; EXHUMATION; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FOOTWALL; GEODYNAMICS; JURASSIC; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MESOZOIC; NORMAL FAULT; PLUTONISM; RADIOMETRIC METHOD;

CHINA; LIAODONG PENINSULA; LIAONING; NORTH CHINA BLOCK;

EID: 79956094687     PISSN: 13679120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jseaes.2010.09.007     Document Type: Article

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