Geochronology of multi-stage metamorphic events: Constraints on episodic zircon growth from the UHP eclogite in the South Altyn, NW China

Lithos

Volumn 136-139, Issue , 2012, Pages 10-26

  Liu, Liang ^a   Wang, Chao ^a,b   Cao, Yu Ting ^a   Chen, Dan Ling ^a   Kang, Lei ^a   Yang, Wen Qiang ^a   Zhu, Xiao Hui ^a  

^a NORTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHINA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (China)

Author keywords

Multi stage metamorphism; P T t path; South Altyn; UHP eclogite; Zircon

Indexed keywords

CATHODOLUMINESCENCE; CLINOPYROXENE; ECLOGITE; EXHUMATION; GARNET; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GRANULITE FACIES; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA METHOD; OMPHACITE; P-T CONDITIONS; P-T-T PATH; PALEOZOIC; PETROGRAPHY; PLAGIOCLASE; PROTOLITH; QUARTZ; RETROGRADE METAMORPHISM; RUTILE; SUPERCONTINENT; ULTRAHIGH PRESSURE METAMORPHISM; ZIRCON;

ALTUN MOUNTAINS; CHINA;

EID: 84858289887     PISSN: 00244937     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lithos.2011.09.014     Document Type: Article

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