Geochemistry and U-Pb detrital zircon dating of Paleozoic graywackes in East Junggar, NW China: Insights into subduction-accretion processes in the southern Central Asian Orogenic Belt

Gondwana Research

Volumn 21, Issue 2-3, 2012, Pages 637-653

  Long, Xiaoping ^a,b   Yuan, Chao ^a,b   Sun, Min ^c   Safonova, Inna ^d   Xiao, Wenjiao ^a   Wang, Yujing ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^d SOBOLEV INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Central Asian Orogenic Belt; Detrital zircons; Junggar; Provenance; Tectonics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856213411     PISSN: 1342937X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gr.2011.05.015     Document Type: Article

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