The Liuyuan complex in the Beishan, NW China: A Carboniferous-Permian ophiolitic fore-arc sliver in the southern Altaids

Geological Magazine

Volumn 149, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 483-506

  Mao, Qigui ^a,b   Xiao, Wenjiao ^b   Windley, Brian F ^c   Han, Chunming ^b   Qu, Junfeng ^b   Ao, Songjian ^b   Zhang, Ji'en ^b   Guo, Qianqian ^b  

^a BEIJING INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY FOR MINERAL RESOURCES   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

accretionary orogenesis; Beishan; Carboniferous Permian; Liuyuan complex; southern Altaids

Indexed keywords

EXPLORATORY GEOCHEMISTRY; LIME; MAGNESITE; OCEANOGRAPHY; OXIDE MINERALS; RARE EARTHS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONICS; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

ACCRETIONARY; ALTAIDS; BEISHAN; LIUYUAN COMPLEX; PERMIAN;

BASALT;

AGE DETERMINATION; CARBONIFEROUS; GEOCHEMISTRY; MAFIC ROCK; MID-OCEAN RIDGE BASALT; OPHIOLITE; OROGENY; PERMIAN; PETROLOGY; SILVER; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TECTONIC SETTING;

BEISHAN; CHINA; NEI MONGGOL;

EID: 84859555861     PISSN: 00167568     EISSN: 14695081     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0016756811000811     Document Type: Article

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