Neoproterozoic subduction tectonics of the northwestern Yangtze Block in South China: Constrains from zircon U-Pb geochronology and geochemistry of mafic intrusions in the Hannan Massif

Precambrian Research

Volumn 189, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 66-90

  Dong, Yunpeng ^a   Liu, Xiaoming ^a   Santosh, M ^b   Zhang, Xiaoning ^a   Chen, Qing ^a   Yang, Chen ^a   Yang, Zhao ^a  

^a NORTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b KOCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Geochemistry; Hannan massif; Mafic intrusions; Neoproterozoic; Subduction; Yangtze Block; Zircon geochronology

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL BREAKUP; CRUSTAL CONTAMINATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; DIABASE; GARNET; GEOCHRONOLOGY; IGNEOUS GEOCHEMISTRY; IGNEOUS INTRUSION; MANTLE PLUME; MANTLE SOURCE; OCEAN ISLAND BASALT; PARTIAL MELTING; PETROLOGY; PROTEROZOIC; RODINIA; SUBDUCTION; TECTONIC SETTING; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

CHINA; YANGTZE PLATFORM;

EID: 79960417980     PISSN: 03019268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.precamres.2011.05.002     Document Type: Article

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