Provenance and tectonic setting of the Carboniferous sedimentary rocks of the East Junggar Basin, China: Evidence from geochemistry and U-Pb zircon geochronology

Gondwana Research

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 567-584

  Yang, Xiao Fa ^a   He, Deng Fa ^b   Wang, Qing Chen ^a   Tang, Yong ^c   Tao, Hui Fei ^a   Li, Di ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^c CHINA NATIONAL PETROLEUM CORPORATION   (China)

Author keywords

Carboniferous; Junggar Basin; Provenance; Sedimentary geochemistry; Tectonic setting

Indexed keywords

CARBONIFEROUS; GEOCHRONOLOGY; PROVENANCE; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; SEDIMENTARY ROCK; TECTONIC SETTING; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

CHINA; JUNGGAR BASIN; XINJIANG UYGUR;

EID: 84863872249     PISSN: 1342937X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gr.2011.11.001     Document Type: Article

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