Early Cretaceous dioritic rocks in the Tongling region, eastern China: Implications for the tectonic settings

Lithos

Volumn 150, Issue , 2012, Pages 49-61

  Xie, Jiancheng ^a,b   Yang, Xiaoyong ^a   Sun, Weidong ^c   Du, Jianguo ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b HEFEI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

^d Anhui Academy of Geological Survey   (China)

Author keywords

Adakite; Copper; Ridge subduction; Slab melting; The Lower Yangtze metallogenic belt; Tongling dioritic rocks

Indexed keywords

ASTHENOSPHERE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CONTINENTAL CRUST; COPPER; CRETACEOUS; DIORITE; GOLD; IGNEOUS GEOCHEMISTRY; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LEAD ISOTOPE; METALLOGENESIS; MID-OCEAN RIDGE BASALT; NEODYMIUM ISOTOPE; ORE DEPOSIT; STRONTIUM ISOTOPE; SUBDUCTION; TECTONIC SETTING;

ANHUI; CHINA; TONGLING;

EID: 84865749876     PISSN: 00244937     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lithos.2012.05.008     Document Type: Article

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