Geochemical data and zircon ages for rocks in a high-pressure belt of Chu-Yili Mountains, southern Kazakhstan: Implications for the earliest stages of accretion in Kazakhstan and the Tianshan

Journal of Asian Earth Sciences

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 805-820

  Alexeiev, D V ^a   Ryazantsev, A V ^a   Kroner A ^b,c   Tretyakov, A A ^a   Xia, X ^d   Liu, D Y ^c  

^a RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF MINERAL RESOURCES   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Accretion; Early Palaeozoic; Granodiorite; High pressure pyroxenite; Kazakhstan; Tianshan; Zircon age

Indexed keywords

ACCRETION; ACCRETIONARY PRISM; AGE DETERMINATION; COLLISION ZONE; CONTINENTAL CRUST; GEOCHEMISTRY; GNEISS; GRANODIORITE; OROGENIC BELT; PALEOZOIC; PYROXENITE; SCHIST; SHRIMP DATING; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; ULTRAHIGH PRESSURE METAMORPHISM;

CHU-YILI MOUNTAINS; KAZAKHSTAN; TIEN SHAN;

EID: 80053270839     PISSN: 13679120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jseaes.2010.09.004     Document Type: Article

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