Zircon U-Pb ages and geochemistry of the Qinglong volcano-sedimentary rock series in Eastern Hebei: Implication for ∼2500Ma intra-continental rifting in the North China Craton

Precambrian Research

Volumn 208-211, Issue , 2012, Pages 145-160

  Lv, Bin ^a   Zhai, Mingguo ^a   Li, Tiesheng ^a   Peng, Peng ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Cratonization; Intra continental rift; Neoarchean; North China Craton; Qinglong volcano sedimentary rock series

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBOLITE FACIES; ARCHEAN; GEOCHEMISTRY; GRANULITE FACIES; LEAD-LEAD DATING; METAMORPHISM; METASEDIMENTARY ROCK; PARTIAL MELTING; RIFTING; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

CHINA; HEBEI; NORTH CHINA BLOCK;

EID: 84860682054     PISSN: 03019268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.precamres.2012.04.002     Document Type: Article

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