Geochemical constraints on the provenance and depositional setting of the devonian liuling group, east qinling mountains, central china: Implications for the tectonic evolution of the qinling orogenic belt

Journal of Sedimentary Research

Volumn 82, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 9-20

  Zhen, Y A N ^a   Wang, Zongqi ^b   Quanren, Y A N ^a   Wang, T A O ^a   Xianqing, G U O ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF MINERAL RESOURCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMIUM ALLOYS; DEPOSITION; GEOCHEMISTRY; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; NIOBIUM ALLOYS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; TANTALUM ALLOYS; TECTONICS; TITANIUM ALLOYS; TRACE ELEMENTS; VANADIUM ALLOYS; WEATHERING;

ACCRETIONARY COMPLEX; CHEMICAL INDEX OF ALTERATIONS; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CONVERGENT PLATE BOUNDARIES; DEPOSITIONAL SETTING; QINLING OROGENIC BELTS; TECTONIC FRAMEWORK; WEATHERING REGIMES;

SEDIMENTARY ROCKS;

ACCRETION; CHONDRITE; CONTINENTAL ARC; DEPOSITION; DEVONIAN; OPHIOLITE; OROGENIC BELT; OROGENY; PALEOZOIC; PLATE BOUNDARY; PROVENANCE; RARE EARTH ELEMENT; SEDIMENTARY ROCK; SUBDUCTION; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

CHINA; QINLING MOUNTAINS;

EID: 84865745264     PISSN: 15271404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2110/jsr.2012.4     Document Type: Article

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