Detrital zircon and isotopic constraints on the crustal architecture and tectonic evolution of the northeastern Pamir

Tectonics

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Robinson, Alexander C ^a   Ducea, Mihai ^b   Lapen, Thomas J ^a  

^a University of Houston   (United States)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRANITE; ISOTOPES; NEODYMIUM; ZIRCON;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; CENOZOIC; DETRITAL ZIRCON; EARLY JURASSIC; GNEISS DOME; MESOZOIC; METAMORPHIC EVENTS; ORDOVICIAN; ORTHOGNEISSES; PALEO-TETHYS; PROTOLITHS; QIANGTANG TERRANE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TIBETANS; TRIASSIC;

TECTONICS;

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DETRITAL DEPOSIT; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GRANITE; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; METASEDIMENTARY ROCK; NEODYMIUM ISOTOPE; ORDOVICIAN; PERMIAN-TRIASSIC BOUNDARY; STRONTIUM ISOTOPE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TERRANE; ZIRCON;

PAMIRS;

EID: 84861394904     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011TC003013     Document Type: Article

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