Sr-Nd isotopic and geochemical constraints on provenance of late Paleozoic to early cretaceous sedimentary rocks in the Western Hills of Beijing, North China: Implications for the uplift of the northern North China Craton

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 245-246, Issue , 2012, Pages 17-28

  Xie, Shiwen ^a   Wu, Yuanbao ^a   Gao, Shan ^a   Liu, Xiaochi ^a   Zhou, Lian ^a   Zhao, Laishi ^a   Hu, Zhaochu ^a  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

North China Craton; Sedimentary rock; Sr Nd isotope; Tectonic evolution; Yanshan Fold and Thrust Belt

Indexed keywords

EARLY CRETACEOUS; FOLD-AND-THRUST BELTS; INNER MONGOLIA; JURASSIC; LATE PALEOZOIC; LATE TRIASSIC; MAGMATIC ROCK; MAJOR AND TRACE ELEMENTS; MESOZOIC; NORTH CHINA; NORTH CHINA CRATON; OROGENIC BELTS; PALEO-UPLIFT; PALEOZOIC; SIBERIA; SILTSTONES; SOURCE MATERIAL; SOURCE ROCKS; SR-ND ISOTOPES; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; WESTERN HILLS OF BEIJING;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; ISOTOPES; NEODYMIUM; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; STRONTIUM;

TECTONICS;

CRETACEOUS; FOLD AND THRUST BELT; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; NEODYMIUM ISOTOPE; PALEOZOIC; PROVENANCE; SANDSTONE; SEDIMENTARY ROCK; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; STRONTIUM ISOTOPE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; UPLIFT;

BEIJING [CHINA]; CHINA; NORTH CHINA BLOCK; XISHAN;

EID: 84857032199     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2011.12.005     Document Type: Article

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