Discovery of an adakite-like pluton near Dongqiyishan (Beishan, NW China) - Its age and tectonic significance

Lithos

Volumn 142-143, Issue , 2012, Pages 148-160

  Zhang, Wen ^a,b   Pease, Victoria ^b   Wu, Tairan ^a   Zheng, Rongguo ^a   Feng, Jicheng ^a   He, Yuankai ^a   Luo, Hongling ^a   Xu, Cao ^a  

^a Peking University   (China)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Adakite like granite; Beishan; CAOB; Geochemistry; Paleozoic; SIMS

Indexed keywords

ADAKITE; BACKARC BASIN; CALC ALKALINE ROCK; CARBONIFEROUS; CRUSTAL THICKENING; FRACTIONAL CRYSTALLIZATION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GRANITE; MID-OCEAN RIDGE BASALT; OCEANIC CRUST; OROGENIC BELT; PLUTON; RARE EARTH ELEMENT; TECTONIC SETTING; URANIUM-LEAD DATING;

EID: 84860619378     PISSN: 00244937     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lithos.2012.02.021     Document Type: Article

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