Destruction of the North China Craton

Science China Earth Sciences

Volumn 55, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1565-1587

  Zhu, RiXiang ^a   Xu, YiGang ^b   Zhu, Guang ^c   Zhang, HongFu ^a   Xia, QunKe ^d   Zheng, TianYu ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

^c HEFEI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

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

Author keywords

craton destruction; North China Craton; NSFC major research project; research progress

Indexed keywords

EARTH SCIENCES; NATURAL SCIENCES;

CRATON DESTRUCTION; LITHOSPHERIC THICKNESS; NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATIONS; NORTH CHINA CRATON; NSFC MAJOR RESEARCH PROJECT; SPATIAL HETEROGENEITY; SPATIOTEMPORAL DISTRIBUTIONS; SUB-CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERIC MANTLES;

TECTONICS;

CENOZOIC; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; GEOLOGICAL RECORD; HETEROGENEITY; LITHOSPHERE; MESOZOIC; PALEOZOIC; PLATE TECTONICS; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SUBDUCTION; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION;

CHINA; NORTH CHINA BLOCK;

EID: 84867031715     PISSN: 16747313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11430-012-4516-y     Document Type: Review

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