Continental growth and secular evolution: Constraints from u-pb ages and hf isotope of detrital zircons in proterozoic jixian sedimentary section (1.8-0.8ga), north china craton

Precambrian Research

Volumn 189, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 229-238

  Ying, Ji Feng ^a   Zhou, Xin Hua ^a   Su, Ben Xun ^a   Tang, Yan Jie ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Crustal growth; Detrital zircon; North China Craton; Sedimentary rocks

Indexed keywords

ARCHEAN; CRUSTAL EVOLUTION; CRYSTALLIZATION; DETRITAL DEPOSIT; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; PRECAMBRIAN; PROTEROZOIC; SEDIMENTARY ROCK; STRATIGRAPHY; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

CHINA; NORTH CHINA BLOCK;

EID: 80051866288     PISSN: 03019268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.precamres.2011.07.007     Document Type: Article

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