Cambrian bimodal volcanism in the Lhasa Terrane, southern Tibet: Record of an early Paleozoic Andean-type magmatic arc in the Australian proto-Tethyan margin

Chemical Geology

Volumn 328, Issue , 2012, Pages 290-308

  Zhu, Di Cheng ^a   Zhao, Zhi Dan ^a   Niu, Yaoling ^b,c   Dilek, Yildirim ^a,d   Wang, Qing ^a   Ji, Wen Hua ^e   Dong, Guo Chen ^a   Sui, Qing Lin ^a   Liu, Yong Sheng ^f   Yuan, Hong Lin ^g   Mo, Xuan Xue ^a  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^b LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e XI AN INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES   (China)

^f CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^g NORTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Cambrian bimodal metavolcanic rocks; Lhasa Terrane; Petrogenesis; Southern Tibet; Whole rock geochemistry; Zircon U Pb dating and Hf isotope

Indexed keywords

HF ISOTOPE; LHASA TERRANE; METAVOLCANIC ROCKS; PETROGENESIS; SOUTHERN TIBET;

GEOCHRONOLOGY; HAFNIUM; ISOTOPES; LEAD; NEODYMIUM; STRONTIUM; VOLCANIC ROCKS; ZIRCON; ZIRCONIUM;

ROCKS;

BIMODAL ASSOCIATION; CAMBRIAN; CONTINENTAL ARC; CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; GEOLOGICAL RECORD; HAFNIUM; METAVOLCANIC ROCK; PARTIAL MELTING; PETROGENESIS; POINT SOURCE; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; VOLCANIC ERUPTION; VOLCANISM;

CHINA; XIZANG;

EID: 84862795922     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2011.12.024     Document Type: Article

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