Geochemistry of ∼2.7Ga basalts from Taishan area: Constraints on the evolution of early Neoarchean granite-greenstone belt in western Shandong Province, China

Precambrian Research

Volumn 224, Issue , 2013, Pages 94-109

  Wang, Wei ^a,b,c   Yang, Enxiu ^d   Zhai, Mingguo ^a   Wang, Shijin ^d   Santosh, M ^e,f   Du, Lilin ^b   Xie, Hangqiang ^b   Lv, Bin ^a   Wan, Yusheng ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b Beijing SHRIMP Center   (China)

^c CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^d Shandong Geological Survey Institute   (China)

^e KOCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES BEIJING   (China)

Author keywords

Basaltic lava sequence; Early Neoarchean; Geochemistry; Taishan association; Western Shandong Province

Indexed keywords

ARCHEAN; BASALT; CRUSTAL EVOLUTION; GEOCHEMISTRY; GRANITE; GREENSTONE BELT; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; KOMATIITE; RARE EARTH ELEMENT; THOLEIITE; TRACE ELEMENT;

CHINA; NORTH CHINA BLOCK; SHANDONG; TAI SHAN;

EID: 84867426179     PISSN: 03019268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.precamres.2012.09.009     Document Type: Article

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