Recycled crustal zircons from podiform chromitites in the Luobusa ophiolite, southern Tibet

Island Arc

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 89-103

  Yamamoto, Shinji ^a   Komiya, Tsuyoshi ^a   Yamamoto, Hiroshi ^b   Kaneko, Yoshiyuki ^c   Terabayashi, Masaru ^d   Katayama, Ikuo ^e   Iizuka, Tsuyoshi ^a   Maruyama, Shigenori ^f   Yang, Jingsui ^g   Kon, Yoshiaki ^h   Hirata, Takafumi ⁱ  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c MEISEI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d KAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^g INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

^h NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

ⁱ KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Crustal contamination; Gondwana breakup; Neo Tethys mantle; Podiform chromitite; Zircon U Pb dating

Indexed keywords

AGE DETERMINATION; CHROMITITE; CONTINENTAL BREAKUP; CRUSTAL CONTAMINATION; FAULT ZONE; GONDWANA; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; OPHIOLITE; PERIDOTITE; TETHYS; UPPER MANTLE; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

CHINA; LUOBUSHA OPHIOLITE; XIZANG;

EID: 84874364798     PISSN: 10384871     EISSN: 14401738     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/iar.12011     Document Type: Article

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