Formation age and tectonic setting of the shirengou neoarchean banded iron deposit in eastern hebei province: Constraints from geochemistry and sims zircon u-pb dating

Precambrian Research

Volumn 222-223, Issue , 2012, Pages 325-338

  Zhang, Lianchang ^a   Zhai, Mingguo ^a   Zhang, Xiaojing ^a   Xiang, Peng ^a   Dai, Yanpei ^a   Wang, Changle ^a   Pirajno, Franco ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Algoma type iron deposit; Neoarchean BIF; SIMS zircon oxygen isotope; SIMS zircon U Pb dating; Tectonic setting

Indexed keywords

AGE DETERMINATION; AMPHIBOLITE; ARCHEAN; BANDED IRON FORMATION; GEOCHEMISTRY; GNEISS; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; METAMORPHIC ROCK; METAMORPHISM; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PROTOLITH; SUBDUCTION; TECTONIC SETTING; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

CHINA; HEBEI; NORTH CHINA BLOCK;

EID: 84867268035     PISSN: 03019268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.precamres.2011.09.007     Document Type: Article

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