Late Paleozoic post-collisional magmatism in the Eastern Tianshan Belt, Northwest China: New insights from geochemistry, geochronology and petrology of bimodal volcanic rocks

Lithos

Volumn 127, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 581-598

  Chen, Xijie ^a   Shu, Liangshu ^a   Santosh, M ^b  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b KOCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bimodal volcanic rocks; Eastern Tianshan Belt; Geochemistry; Hf isotopes; Late Paleozoic; Zircon U Pb dating

Indexed keywords

BIMODAL ASSOCIATION; CONTINENTAL CRUST; GEOCHEMISTRY; GEOCHRONOLOGY; HAFNIUM; MAGMATISM; NIOBIUM; PALEOZOIC; PETROLOGY; PHOSPHORUS; RHYOLITE; TANTALUM; TITANIUM; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; VOLCANIC ROCK; ZIRCON;

TIEN SHAN;

EID: 82455172149     PISSN: 00244937     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lithos.2011.06.008     Document Type: Article

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