Late neoproterozoic thermal events in the northern lhasa terrane, south tibet: Zircon chronology and tectonic implications

Journal of Geodynamics

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 389-405

  Dong, Xin ^a   Zhang, Zeming ^a,b   Santosh, M ^c   Wang, Wei ^b   Yu, Fei ^b   Liu, Feng ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

^b CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^c KOCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Lhasa terrane; Precambrian metamorphism; Rodinia supercontinent; Tibetan Plateau; Zircon U Pb dating

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBOLITE FACIES; GEOCHEMISTRY; GEOCHRONOLOGY; MARBLE; METAMORPHIC ROCK; METAMORPHISM; OROGENY; PRECAMBRIAN; PROTEROZOIC; PROTOLITH; RODINIA; SUBDUCTION; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

CHINA; LHASA; MADAGASCAR; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; SEYCHELLES; XIZANG;

EID: 80052673102     PISSN: 02643707     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jog.2011.05.002     Document Type: Article

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