Geochronology and geochemistry of late Archean adakitic plutons from the Taishan granite-greenstone Terrain: Implications for tectonic evolution of the eastern North China Craton

Precambrian Research

Volumn 208-211, Issue , 2012, Pages 53-71

  Peng, Touping ^a   Fan, Weiming ^a   Peng, Bingxia ^a  

^a GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

Author keywords

Eastern Block of North China Craton; High SiO 2 adakites; Late Archean; Taishan granite greenstone terrain

Indexed keywords

ADAKITE; ARCHEAN; GEOCHEMISTRY; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GRANITE; GREENSTONE; MAGMATISM; PARTIAL MELTING; PLUTON; SUBDUCTION; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

CHINA; NORTH CHINA BLOCK; SHANDONG; TAI SHAN;

EID: 84860342627     PISSN: 03019268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.precamres.2012.03.008     Document Type: Article

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