Geochemical and geochronological studies of granitoid rocks from the Western Tianshan Orogen: Implications for continental growth in the southwestern Central Asian Orogenic Belt

Lithos

Volumn 126, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 321-340

  Long, Lingli ^a,b,c   Gao, Jun ^a,b   Klemd, Reiner ^d   Beier, Christoph ^d   Qian, Qing ^b   Zhang, Xi ^a,b   Wang, Jingbin ^c   Jiang, Tuo ^b  

^a XINJIANG INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND GEOGRAPHY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c BEIJING INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY FOR MINERAL RESOURCES   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Continental growth; Granitoid rocks; Sr Nd isotope; Tianshan; Zircon U Pb age

Indexed keywords

ACCRETION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GNEISS; GRANITE; GRANITOID; IGNEOUS GEOCHEMISTRY; MAGMA; NEODYMIUM ISOTOPE; OROGENIC BELT; REWORKING; STRONTIUM ISOTOPE; SUBDUCTION; TECTONIC SETTING; TERRANE;

TIEN SHAN;

EID: 80052022002     PISSN: 00244937     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lithos.2011.07.015     Document Type: Article

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