Petrogenesis of silica-saturated and silica-undersaturated syenites in the northern North China Craton related to post-collisional and intraplate extension

Chemical Geology

Volumn 328, Issue , 2012, Pages 149-167

  Yang, Jin Hui ^a   Sun, Jin Feng ^a   Zhang, Min ^a   Wu, Fu Yuan ^a   Wilde, Simon A ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Intraplate extensional magmatism; North China Craton; Petrogenesis; Post collisional magmatism; Syenite; Yanshan Fold and Thrust Belt

Indexed keywords

FOLD-AND-THRUST BELTS; MAGMATISMS; NORTH CHINA CRATON; PETROGENESIS; SYENITE;

BARIUM; EUROPIUM; GEOCHEMISTRY; GEOCHRONOLOGY; HAFNIUM; IGNEOUS ROCKS; ISOTOPES; LEAD; MELTING; MICA; NEODYMIUM; NIOBIUM; PETROLOGY; QUARTZ; STRONTIUM; TANTALUM;

TECTONICS;

AMPHIBOLE; CLINOPYROXENE; EMPLACEMENT; FOLD AND THRUST BELT; FRACTIONAL CRYSTALLIZATION; INTRAPLATE PROCESS; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MAGMATISM; PARTIAL MELTING; PERMIAN; PETROGENESIS; SILICA; SYENITE; TRIASSIC; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

CHINA; NORTH CHINA BLOCK;

EID: 84865193953     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2011.09.011     Document Type: Article

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