Carboniferous appinitic intrusions from the northern north china craton: Geochemistry, petrogenesis and tectonic implications

Journal of the Geological Society

Volumn 169, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 337-351

  Zhang, Xiaohui ^a   Gao, Yanlong ^b   Wang, Zhijun ^b   Liu, Hu ^c   Ma, Yuguang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b China National Gold Group   (China)

^c LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKALI CONTENTS; GEOCHEMICAL FEATURES; HIGH FIELD STRENGTH ELEMENTS; LARGE ION LITHOPHILE ELEMENTS; LASER-ABLATION INDUCTIVELY-COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY; LIGHT RARE EARTH ELEMENTS; LITHOSPHERIC; NORTH CHINA CRATON; PARTIAL MELTING; PETROGENESIS; SHEAR ZONE; SUB-CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERIC MANTLES; TECTONIC IMPLICATIONS; TWO-STAGE PROCESS; ULTRAMAFIC COMPLEX; ZIRCON U-PB DATING;

GEOCHEMISTRY; GEOCHRONOLOGY; HAFNIUM; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY; LEAD; MINERALOGY; RARE EARTH ELEMENTS; SILICATE MINERALS;

TECTONICS;

CARBONIFEROUS; GEOCHEMISTRY; IGNEOUS INTRUSION; PARTIAL MELTING; PETROGENESIS; TECTONIC SETTING;

CHINA; NORTH CHINA BLOCK;

EID: 84861126084     PISSN: 00167649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/0016-76492011-062     Document Type: Article

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