Middle-Late Ordovician arc-type plutonism in the NW Chinese Tianshan: Implication for the accretion of the Kazakhstan continent in Central Asia

Journal of Asian Earth Sciences

Volumn 49, Issue , 2012, Pages 40-53

  Wang, Bo ^a,b   Jahn, Bor ming ^b,c   Shu, Liangshu ^a   Li, Kongsen ^a   Chung, Sun lin ^c   Liu, Dunyi ^d  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Central Asian Orogenic Belt (CAOB); Early Paleozoic arc; Geochemistry; Kazakhstan; SHRIMP U Pb dating; Tianshan (Tien Shan)

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBOLITE; CONTINENTAL ARC; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; GABBRO; GEOCHEMISTRY; MAGMATISM; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; ORDOVICIAN; OROGENIC BELT; PALEOZOIC; PETROGRAPHY; PLUTONISM; PROTOLITH; SHRIMP DATING; SUBDUCTION; URANIUM-LEAD DATING;

KAZAKHSTAN; TIEN SHAN;

EID: 84859047704     PISSN: 13679120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jseaes.2011.11.005     Document Type: Article

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