Remelting of Neoproterozoic relict volcanic arcs in the Middle Jurassic: Implication for the formation of the Dexing porphyry copper deposit, Southeastern China

Lithos

Volumn 150, Issue , 2012, Pages 85-100

  Liu, Xuan ^a   Fan, Hong Rui ^a   Santosh, M ^b   Hu, Fang Fang ^a   Yang, Kui Feng ^a   Li, Qiu Li ^a   Yang, Yue Heng ^a   Liu, Yongsheng ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b KOCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Dexing Cu deposit; Geochemistry; Geochronology; Island arc; Southeastern China; Zircon Hf O isotopes

Indexed keywords

ASTHENOSPHERE; COPPER; FORMATION MECHANISM; GEOCHRONOLOGY; IGNEOUS GEOCHEMISTRY; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA METHOD; ISLAND ARC; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; JURASSIC; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; ORE DEPOSIT; PORPHYRY; PROTEROZOIC; RARE EARTH ELEMENT; URANIUM-LEAD DATING;

CHINA;

EID: 84865725277     PISSN: 00244937     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lithos.2012.05.018     Document Type: Article

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