Variscan orogeny of Central Tianshan Mountains: Constrains from zircon UPb chronology of high-grade metamorphic rocks

Geology in China

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 820-828

  Lin, Yan Hao ^a   Zhang, Ze Ming ^b   He, Zhen Yu ^b   Dong, Xin ^b   Yu, Fei ^a  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Central Asian orogenic belt; Central Tianshan Mountains; Metamorphism; Variscan orogeny; Zircon U Pb dating

Indexed keywords

CHRONOLOGY; DETRITAL DEPOSIT; HERCYNIAN OROGENY; METAIGNEOUS ROCK; METAMORPHISM; METASEDIMENTARY ROCK; MICROPLATE; OROGENIC BELT; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

TIEN SHAN;

EID: 80955168003     PISSN: 10003657     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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