Structural analysis of the northern Tongbai Metamorphic Terranes, Central China: Implications for Paleozoic accretionary process on the southern margin of the North China Craton

Journal of Asian Earth Sciences

Volumn 47, Issue , 2012, Pages 143-154

  Liu, Xin ^a,b   Li, Sanzhong ^a,b   Suo, Yanhui ^a,b   Liu, Xiaochun ^c   Dai, Liming ^a,b   Santosh, M ^d  

^a OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^b BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF MINERAL RESOURCES   (China)

^d KOCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Accretion; Arc continental collision; Deformation pattern; EBSD; Microstructure; Paleozoic; Qinling Tongbai Dabie Sulu Orogen

Indexed keywords

ACCRETION; ARC-CONTINENT COLLISION; DEFORMATION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; METAMORPHISM; MICROSTRUCTURE; PALEOZOIC; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; TERRANE;

CHINA; DABIE MOUNTAINS; NORTH CHINA BLOCK; QINLING MOUNTAINS; TONGBAI MOUNTAINS;

EID: 84857509994     PISSN: 13679120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jseaes.2011.09.002     Document Type: Article

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