Late Devonian-Early Permian A-type granites in the southern Altay Range, Northwest China: Petrogenesis and implications for tectonic setting of "A2-type" granites

Journal of Asian Earth Sciences

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 986-1007

  Shen, Xiaoming ^a,b   Zhang, Haixiang ^a   Wang, Qiang ^a   Wyman, Derek A ^c   Yang, Yueheng ^d  

^a GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

A type granite; Altay; Central Asian Orogenic Belt; Post collision; Ridge subduction

Indexed keywords

A-TYPE ROCK; AGE DETERMINATION; CONTINENTAL COLLISION; DEVONIAN; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; GRANITE; MAGMATISM; OROGENIC BELT; PARTIAL MELTING; PERMIAN; PETROGENESIS; SUBDUCTION; TECTONIC SETTING; URANIUM-LEAD DATING;

ALTAY [XINJIANG UYGUR]; CHINA; XINJIANG UYGUR;

EID: 80053259522     PISSN: 13679120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jseaes.2010.10.004     Document Type: Article

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