Episodic mantle melting-crustal reworking in the late neoarchean of the Northwestern North China Craton: Zircon ages of magmatic and metamorphic rocks from the Yinshan Block

Precambrian Research

Volumn 222-223, Issue , 2012, Pages 230-254

  Jian, Ping ^a   Kröner, Alfred ^a,b   Windley, Brian F ^c   Zhang, Qi ^d   Zhang, Wei ^a   Zhang, Liqao ^e  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^e Inner Mongolian Institute of Geology   (China)

Author keywords

Granitoid; Greenstone; High grade metamorphic rocks; High Mg andesite and sanukitoid; Mg adakite; Neoarchean zircon ages; North China craton

Indexed keywords

ADAKITE; AGE DETERMINATION; ANDESITE; ARCHEAN; BATHOLITH; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GRANITOID; GREENSTONE; MANTLE STRUCTURE; MELTING; METAMORPHIC ROCK; ORTHOANDESITE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; ZIRCON;

CHINA; NEI MONGGOL; NORTH CHINA BLOCK; YINSHAN MOUNTAINS;

EID: 84874979962     PISSN: 03019268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.precamres.2012.03.002     Document Type: Article

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118. Zhao G.C., Wilde S.A., Cawood P.A., Lu L.Z. Tectonothermal history of the basement rocks in the western zone of the North China Craton and its tectonic implications. Tectonophysics 1999, 310:37-53.
119. Zhao G.C., Wilde S.A., Cawood P.A., Sun M. Archean blocks and their boundaries in the North China Craton: lithological, geochemical, structural and P-T path constraints and tectonic evolution. Precambrian Research 2001, 107:45-73.
120. Zhao G.C., Sun M., Wilde S.A. Major tectonic units of the North China Craton and their Paleoproterozoic assembly. Science in China Series D-Earth Sciences 2003, 46:23-38.
121. Zhao G.C., Sun M., Wilde S.A. Correlations between the Eastern Block of the North China Craton and the South Indian Block of the Indian Shield: an Archean to Paleoproterozoic link. Precambrian Research 2003, 122:201-233.
122. Zhao G.C., Sun M., Wilde Li S.Z. Late Archean to Paleoproterozoic evolution of the North China Craton: key issues revisited. Precambrian Research 2005, 136:177-202.
123. Zhao G.C., Kröner A., Wild S.A., Sun M., Li S.Z., Li X.P., Zhang J., Xia X.P., He Y.H. Lithotectonic elements and geological events in the Hengshan-Wutai-Fuping belt: a synthesis and implications for the evolution of the Trans-North China Orogen. Geological Magazine 2005, 144:753-775.
124. Zhao G.C., Sun M., Wilde S.A., Li S.Z., Liu S.W., Zhang J. Composite nature of the North China Granulite-Facies Belt: tectonothermal and geochronological constraints. Gondwana Research 2006, 9:337-348.
125. Zhao G.C., Wilde S.A., Li S.Z., Sun M., Grant M.L., Li X.P. U-Pb zircon age constraints on the Dongwanzi ultramafic-mafic body, North China, confirm it is not an Archean ophiolite. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 2007, 255:85-93.
126. Zhao, G.C., Wilde, S.A., Zhang, J., 2010. New evidence from seismic imaging for subduction during assembly of the North China craton: COMMENT. Geology Forum, COMMENT: doi:10.1130/G30677C.1.
127. Zhao Z.R., Song H.X., Shen Q.H., Song B. The petro-geochemical characters and SHRIMP U-Pb zircon ages of meta-mafic rocks from the Yishui complex, in Yishui County, Shandong Province. Geological Review 2009, 55:286-298. (in Chinese with English abstract).