Detrital zircon provenance of Upper Ordovician and Silurian strata in the northeastern Yangtze Block: Response to orogenesis in South China

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 267-268, Issue , 2012, Pages 63-72

  Xu, Yajun ^a   Du, Yuansheng ^a   Cawood, Peter A ^b,c   Zhu, Yanhui ^a   Li, Wenchao ^a   Yu, Wenchao ^a  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Chronology; Detrital zircon; Kwangsian Orogeny; South China

Indexed keywords

AGE DATA; ARCHEAN; CATHAYSIA BLOCK; CHRONOLOGY; DETRITAL ZIRCON; EARLY PALEOZOIC; IGNEOUS ACTIVITY; KWANGSIAN OROGENY; NEOPROTEROZOIC; ORDOVICIAN; PALEOZOIC; PRECAMBRIAN; SOUTH CHINA; YANGTZE BLOCK;

GALLIUM; LEAD; ZIRCON;

GEOCHRONOLOGY;

DETRITAL DEPOSIT; GEOCHRONOLOGY; ORDOVICIAN-SILURIAN BOUNDARY; OROGENY; PROVENANCE; SEDIMENTATION; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

CATHAYSIA BLOCK; CHINA; YANGTZE PLATFORM;

EID: 84862999250     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2012.05.009     Document Type: Article

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