Tectonic significance of early Paleozoic high-pressure rocks in Altun-Qaidam-Qilian Mountains, northwest China

Memoir of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 194, Issue , 2001, Pages 151-170

  Yang, Jingsui ^a   Xu, Zhiqin ^a   Zhang, Jianxin ^a   Chu, Ching Yen ^b   Zhang, Ruyuan ^b   Liou, Juhn Guang ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINARY ALLOYS; GARNETS; ISOTOPES; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; NEODYMIUM ALLOYS; SAMARIUM ALLOYS; SILICATE MINERALS; TECTONICS; ZIRCON;

AMPHIBOLITE FACIES; CONTINENTAL SUBDUCTIONS; HIGH-PRESSURE ROCKS; ISOTOPIC DETERMINATIONS; LATERAL DISPLACEMENTS; MINERAL PARAGENESIS; MODES OF OCCURRENCES; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE;

LANDFORMS;

ECLOGITE; GARNET; HIGH PRESSURE; HIGH TEMPERATURE; OROGENIC BELT; PALEOZOIC; PERIDOTITE; PRESSURE EFFECT; TECTONIC SETTING;

CHINA; QAIDAM BASIN; QILIAN MOUNTAINS; QINGHAI;

EID: 84871237138     PISSN: 00721069     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-1194-0.151     Document Type: Article

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