Sedimentary records of the Yangtze Block (South China) and their correlation with equivalent Neoproterozoic sequences on adjacent continents

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 265-266, Issue , 2012, Pages 126-142

  Wang, Wei ^a   Zhou, Mei Fu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Detrital zircons; Geochemistry; Neoproterozoic; Rodinia; U Pb Hf isotopes; Yangtze Block

Indexed keywords

GEOCHEMISTRY; HAFNIUM ALLOYS; LEAD ALLOYS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SILICATE MINERALS; TERNARY ALLOYS; VOLCANIC ROCKS; ZIRCON;

DETRITAL ZIRCON; HF ISOTOPE; NEOPROTEROZOIC; RODINIA; YANGTZE BLOCK;

SEDIMENTARY ROCKS;

CARBONATE ROCK; DETRITAL DEPOSIT; GEOCHRONOLOGY; HAFNIUM; ISOTOPIC RATIO; LEAD ISOTOPE; PELITE; PLUTON; PROTEROZOIC; RODINIA; SANDSTONE; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; SEDIMENTARY STRUCTURE; SILICICLASTIC DEPOSIT; SILTSTONE; SOURCE ROCK; URANIUM ISOTOPE; VOLCANIC ROCK; ZIRCON;

CHINA; YANGTZE PLATFORM;

EID: 84861833311     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2012.04.003     Document Type: Article

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