Detrital zircons from the Tananao metamorphic complex of Taiwan: Implications for sediment provenance and Mesozoic tectonics

Tectonophysics

Volumn 541-543, Issue , 2012, Pages 31-42

  Yui, T F ^a   Maki, K ^b   Lan, C Y ^a   Hirata, T ^b   Chu, H T ^c   Kon, Y ^d   Yokoyama, T D ^b   Jahn, B M ^e   Ernst, W G ^f  

^a INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c MINISTRY OF ECONOMIC AFFAIRS   (Taiwan)

^d GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

^e NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^f STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Detrital zircons; Mesozoic tectonics; Sediment provenance; Taiwan; Tananao metamorphic complex; U Pb dating

Indexed keywords

DETRITAL ZIRCON; MESOZOIC; SEDIMENT PROVENANCE; TAIWAN; TANANAO METAMORPHIC COMPLEX; U-PB DATING;

BUILDINGS; GEOCHRONOLOGY; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY; LEAD; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS; TECTONICS;

METAMORPHIC ROCKS;

CORRELATION; DETRITAL DEPOSIT; GRANITOID; MESOZOIC; METAMORPHISM; METASEDIMENTARY ROCK; OVERPRINTING; PLATE TECTONICS; PLUTON; PROVENANCE; ZIRCON;

TAIWAN;

EID: 84860493618     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2012.03.013     Document Type: Article

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