Juvenile magmatism and crustal recycling at the end of the Neoarchean in western Shandong Province, North China Craton: Evidence from SHRIMP zircon dating

American Journal of Science

Volumn 310, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1503-1552

  Wan, Yusheng ^a   Liu, Dunyi ^a   Wang, Shijin ^b   Dong, Chunyan ^a   Yang, Enxiu ^b   Wang, Wei ^a   Zhou, Hongying ^c   Ning, Zhenguo ^b   Du, Lilin ^a   Yin, Xiaoyan ^d   Xie, Hangqiang ^a   Ma, Mingzhu ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

^b Shandong Geological Survey Institute   (China)

^c TIANJIN INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES   (China)

^d INSTITUTE OF MINERAL RESOURCES   (China)

Author keywords

Addition from mantle; Crustal recycling; Neoarchean; North China Craton; SHRIMP dating; Western Shandong

Indexed keywords

AGE DETERMINATION; ARCHEAN; CRUSTAL RECYCLING; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; GEOCHRONOLOGY; MAGMATISM; MANTLE SOURCE; SHRIMP DATING; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC SETTING;

CHINA; NORTH CHINA BLOCK; SHANDONG;

EID: 79957515325     PISSN: 00029599     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2475/10.2010.11     Document Type: Article

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